Feb 21, 2022 | All Blog Posts, Nepal, Spiritual Journey, Writing
MY FIRST VOLUNTEER ADVENTURE IN NEPAL I HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO GO I had always wanted to visit Nepal. Trekking adventures, Buddhist spirituality. There was even a period where I walked about singing the old Cat Stevens song, “Kathmandu, I’ll soon be seeing you …” In...
Nov 26, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Nepal, Spiritual Journey, Writing
INTRODUCING MY NEW NOVEL HIMALAYAN AWAKENING Heart of a Warrior Book 1 Himalayan Awakening takes us on a spiritual and emotional journey with our middle-aged protagonist, Ronnie. When we first meet Ronnie, she’s all heart and no self-confidence, feeling powerless to...
Jun 10, 2020 | All Blog Posts, Health, Reading, Writing
Love In The Time Of Corona I Was Waiting I was waiting … waiting. It had to happen, and it did. The perfect book title – or so it seemed. As I write this there are currently sixteen, yes, sixteen books on Amazon titled Love in the Time of Corona. And...
May 25, 2019 | All Blog Posts, Reading, Women Loving
Tipping the Velvet: My First Book Review I am thrilled to write about Tipping the Velvet for my first book review on my blog. Tipping the Velvet was Sarah Waters’ first novel. Published in 1998 when she was just 28, it has been rightly hailed as a standout in lesbian...
Apr 7, 2019 | All Blog Posts, Reading, Writing
HOW I DISCOVERED READING AND STOPPED BEING A LITERARY GOLDILOCKS Okay, I didn’t just discover reading, I have always loved the idea of it. The truth is I have spent most of my life being what I would describe as a “frustrated reader.” There were a few authors I...
Nov 9, 2018 | All Blog Posts, Writing
The Secrets We Keep: A Love Story The Secrets We Keep: A Love Story, set primarily in Europe in 1989, was the first novel I published, writing as D. R. Coghlan. The story had been playing around in my head for some time before I finally gave myself the space to write...
