

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 I'd created. So I put the manuscript into the proverbial drawer (a computer folder) and vowed to write a new novel "when I got around to it." Then life happened. I made a huge change--my husband and I moved to the country for the homesteading life--and wrote my first Little Farm memoir. As the months, then years went by, other novels took my a