I'm starting my new life as a Lady in a van. It's exciting and bewildering all at the same time. Around me is organized chaos, waiting to...

It has been a month now that I live in my camper. I'm getting used to the nomad life. I’ve learned a few unexpected lessons. It’s not all...

The count down is on. It's only 19 days till my #Vanlife begins. I'm finding something new each day I have to add to my 'outfit.' The...

I finished a 5-day-tour exploring the Kaipara harbor - a vast body of water an hour north of Auckland. It's a very rural part of New...

Last weekend we celebrated my husband's life. My three-year-old grandson learned in kindy about Matariki and told me that Opi is now a...

Here is the trailer for THE HURTING HEART. You'd think nothing much happens in a small village in one of the remotest places of New...

I know many of you live in the Northern Hemisphere and would instead look for woolen jumpers than t-shirts and sandals. I hope you have a...

My author colleague's new book in the Alinta Bay Series is out! She loves the feel of his skin beneath her hands … Lexie Marshall packs...

It's getting colder in the Southern Hemisphere. Just the right time to fill up my nightstand stack of books to read. - Although, that's...

Spring is ever so softly knocking at your door (I hope) and the nasty cold winter storms are behind you. Isn't that a good time to plan...

Something is playing on my mind, and I wonder whether people agree with me. We need a new, gripping Valentine's Movie! I've spent the...

"...I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." Who can forget these epic words from one of the most...

I used to own a small rail-way worker’s cottage in Taumarunui, a small town right in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand. For...

It's about to get crazy. You'd think after the year we had so far, that's a hard act to follow, but fear not, we'll manage. Of course,...

Congratulations to retired psychotherapist and trauma specialist Gudrun Frerichs, whose first thriller has been longlisted for the 2020...

Not everyone is able to escape to the beach this summer. Whether you can't because there is just no beach in close distance, you have to...

I thought it's time to put on my 'old' psychotherapist hat for a moment. Why? Because the worldwide pandemic is causing huge stressors...

When I started writing BEYOND THE TREE HOUSE last year, the world was a very different place from today. I find it hard to celebrate the...

I'm over the moon. THE GIRL FROM THE TREE HOUSE has been long-listed for The Ngaio Marsh Award. It's a New Zealand award for excellence...

So, there is this corona virus. How quickly the view snowballed from the poor people in China who had this horrible epidemic to suddenly...