At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second,...

Though I’ve never lived in Montreal, it feels like home whenever I visit because it was a constant in my nomadic childhood. Both of my parents were raised in...

Rachel's Secret, inspired by the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom, is on Ezvid Wiki's list of 9 YA books set amid war & crisis

July 4 marks The Day of Remembrance in Riga, Latvia, where Holocaust survivors reunite to honour the victims of the synagogue burnings July

“In Soviet times, you could get arrested or shot for staring at this monument,” Liga, our lanky guide for the Soviet tour of Riga, pointed out as we watched ...

It’s the second day of 2019 and I haven’t been able to come up with any useful resolutions. When I look back on previous years, at resolutions made and subse...

My timing couldn’t have been better. I arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, with my husband and son, the day Islanders Write began. It’s a free event, with an impre...

I should have known better. I should have known the odds of all three of our children materialising for a family vacation were around a thousand to one. Good...

This year, we’re bucking tradition and going away for the holidays. It will be the first time in my life I’m not home, and even though it’s just four nights,...

Despite the glut of articles and on-line sites offering, “Tips for creating a bestselling series,” or, “How to write a bestseller in 30 days,” or, “Plot stru...