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What once was, is now still.

A slave ship For my current work in progress, I’ve been researching the history of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Thomas Clarkson, one of the prominent voices in the fight to abolish slavery, wrote a two volume account of the long struggle: History...

L.M. Montgomery on Souls

I didn’t discover L.M. Montgomery’s works until the 1985 miniseries by Kevin Sullivan came out, my response being: How could I have spent my whole childhood without her books?! I promptly got her books and devoured them. I also read her diaries. What a...

How Do We Heal?

While researching the early history of Boston, Massachusetts for my latest novel, Daughter of Anne-Hoeck, I found the first American-made ship. It was named The Desire. It was a slave ship. It probably looked like this one: In 1637, the same year that Anne Hutchinson...