Tales to Tell
On Sunday, I visited a craft fair – with some truly beautiful things for sale – but strangely enough, I didn’t feel inspired (nor did I buy anything) until I left the
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My New Toy
My greatest fear is not the dark, or enclosed places or even spiders. It’s being trapped somewhere with nothing to read. It happened to me once. On a delayed flight, I finished
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Take that Al Capone!
Last weekend, we hired a car and headed up the Hudson Valley looking for some of that autumn foliage for which this part of the world is justifiably famous. It was pretty
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Invasion of the Romance Writers.
My first US writers’ conference this past weekend was quite something. The New Jersey Romance Writers conference is one of the biggest of the RWA chapter conferences – somewhere around 300 writers
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Things I like about NYC #3: Bridges
With the weather still good, we set out to walk from Manhattan to Brooklyn on the Brooklyn Bridge – and back via the Manhattan Bridge. Both bridges are spectacular… On the
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The Ghosts of Ellis Island.
I’ve been looking back at my photos of Ellis Island – and the faces that stared out at me from the walls. What courage those people had! They were journeying into the
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The Gateway To a New Life
As a modern-day visitor to the US, it seemed only fitting that I should visit Ellis Island – which was the gateway to a new life for so many migrants. 12 million
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I Meet a Big Green French Woman
There’s something about cities with a harbour – we are always drawn to the water. New York’s harbour has a couple of things worth visiting – first and foremost of course is
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Things I Love about New York No. 1 – The NYC Public Library
So – time to play tourist. I set out, map in hand, to find the New York Public Library. The library has dozens of branches around the five boroughs, but its heart
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An Aussie's adventures in the Big Apple
So – here I am in New York City: The Big Apple, The City That Never Sleeps. Wow! I’ve only been here a day and a half and my head is spinning