This blog began as a home for my book reviews, most of which were published in my column in the Halifax Herald in Nova Scotia, Canada. After their moment in the sun, they hang out here and perhaps will be read yet again.
In 2019, I went back to school to study history at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After five years, I have an honours BA (with distinction) and an MA, both in history. History is my thing, so I am expanding the 'Book Review' niche to include other stuff.
In 2025, a short essay of mine, "The People Next Door", appeared in Intersections, a journal of the Canadian Historical Association (Summer 2025).
A longer essay, "Denying Home: Canadian Exceptionalism and Indigenous Relocation," appears in Dwelling on the Margins of Empire: Colonized and Indigenous Peoples' Imaginaries of Home, edited by Dr Lisa Binkley (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025).
In 2007, my book, Gracie The Public Gardens Duck, fabulously illustrated by Nova Scotia artist Richard Rudnicki, was published by Nimbus (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Gracie proved to be a popular children's book and is on the recommended reading list for children at the Department of Ornithology at Cornell University, Cornell, N.Y.
