Summer

August 31, 2018

Here are some of the pictures I took this summer in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. On …

Austens in Halifax, Nova Scotia: A Walking Tour

July 14, 2017

Jane Austen died two hundred years ago this month, on July 18, 1817. Readers around the world are commemorating the …

June 9, 2017

Later this month, Sheila Johnson Kindred and I are giving a joint lecture for the Jane Austen Society, UK conference …

October 14, 2016

I spent part of the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend in Mahone Bay and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, reading, writing, and taking pictures. …

October 7, 2016

Inspired by Christy Ann Conlin’s guest post on “The Sweet Exhilaration of Solitude,” I spent some time in the Halifax …

August 26, 2016

This summer, my family and I drove from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Vancouver, British Columbia, mostly on the Trans-Canada highway, …

May 11, 2016

I spent last weekend in Prince Edward Island and one of the books I read was L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valley, …

April 1, 2016

During the winter, when I was hosting Emma in the Snow and taking pictures of snow in Alberta and Nova …