In my heart of hearts, I knew my comfortable life wouldn’t last forever. 

It started with the introduction of a new member to our family that wasn’t my choice (click here). It went on to challenge my ability to…

I am very pleased to introduce you to Olha Tkachenko, the illustrator of my most recent, award-winning children's picture book, The Underdog Duckling. She is as delightful a person as an illustrator and truly a talented artist.

What…

Hot on the heels of my recent national writing award shortlist for my trivia book When Sleeping Birds Fly: 365 Amazing Facts About The Animal Kingdom comes the second book in the series, When Crocodiles Cry: 365 MORE Amazing Facts…

I was excited and honoured to find out that my children’s picture book, The Underdog Duckling, won the Children’s Book General Market category at The 2019 Word Awards. Awards in 43 categories were given out at a black…

I am wearing two hats in this blog as I act as as both interviewer and interviewee for the most-asked questions about my book The Underdog Duckling.

Tell us about your book. 

The Underdog Duckling is about a young…

1. The tongue-eating isopod (a crustacean) eats a fish’s tongue and then becomes the fish’s tongue, feeding on the food the fish catches. 

2. While mating, the male anglerfish grabs onto the much larger female with his mouth, hangs on,…

I am very excited to announce that I have been shortlisted for three 2019 The Word Awards! The Word Awards, sponsored by The Word Guild, are Canada’s largest and most prestigious awards for writers that identify as Christian…

Theo’s first birthday was one that we highly anticipated. Maybe not so much the event itself, but the milestone it represented. Many dog owners we have talked to shared that puppies start to settle down about the time that they…

One of the things I have found difficult to master since our puppy Theo came into our life is figuring out how to maintain a balance between our normal (old) life as a family of two and the new one…

Shortly after Theo turned 10 months old, we had to take another trip with him to the small animal hospital emergency department. (Click here for the first incident.) Like many accidents, it could have been avoided; but it happened…