Recipe for "To Die For" Cornbread
The other day, I realized I hadn't make cornbread for months, although my husband John and I love it. I had some really nice stoneground...
Recipe for Blueberry Bliss!
This dessert is actually a kind of torte, but to me this is one blissful treat! I found the recipe in a family cookbook, which a few...
Pesto Without a Food Processor
Time was running short. I’d grown basil every summer for six years, thinking, oh, boy, I can’t wait to try making pesto! But I'd never...
Irish Novel Part of Special Promotion!
My new Irish novel, “Becoming Emma,” has been chosen for a new Books2Read promotion, “Every Kind of Love Story“! You’ll find ”Becoming...
Goodreads Giveaway of The Little Irish Gift Shop!
To start off the New Year, I’m hoping to help out book-lovers going through hard times…by giving the gift of reading. Starting January 2,...
Everything Old Becomes New Again: A New Irish Novel
Fifteen years ago, I finished an Irish novel I called "Dreams of Ballydara." I loved the characters, but I wasn't happy with the story...
Rose Storyline, Chapter 2, The Claddagh Ring
Rose smooths her housedress then takes a bowl of eggs out of the larder. The hens are getting old, and a fortnight ago, they stopped...
Rose Among the Stars, an exclusive story...Chapter 1, The Mist
Rose Among the Stars is a companion storyline from my novels The Hopeful Romantic and newly-released The Galway Girls. I hope you enjoy...
Imagination + True Life
Talk to any author of fiction (or read about them) and you’ll invariably discover they’ve incorporated aspects of their own lives into...
Welcome to a little corner of Ireland!
This Bonus Features page will focus on Irish stories...one of my favorites is about Grainne, the 16th century Irish Pirate Queen--here...