Remembering a journey with my friend, Magnus, to Roermill, North Roe, where my Shetland ancestors worked and walked.

Remembering a beloved grannie, through a rainbow of words.

I was looking through my grannie's recipes (Kathleen Hattie Inkster, 1914-1984) and found this blank invoice form from the 1940s for Dr....

For the past few years I've participated in a family history writing group through the Surrey Family Search Centre. Once a month we get...

WAS THERE EVER A MORE MAGICAL PLACE than Grannie’s house? Today we went to the nursery to buy some spring flowers for our garden. The...

THE THINLY-SLICED CARROTS fall away from the knife. Potatoes simmer, A turkey basks In the oven heat. We wipe our hands on a tea towel,...

A boiled raisin cookie recipe, wrapped up in family traditions.

YESTERDAY AND TODAY WERE SNOW DAYS in what otherwise would be a very mild winter for us in the Vancouver Lower Mainland region. Schools...