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I’m a Canadian author--a pragmatic optimist with rather eclectic interests and a pervasive sense of humour.

Toronto born and bred, I live by the lake with a motley array of dogs and a cat, all but myself being of unknown origin, in a comfortable old house filled with books. Over a thousand books. Books in every nook and cranny. And now, since there can never be too many books, I'm writing more.

Once More, From the Beginning highlights the women in the bible. It's about time! And believe me, they see things quite differently. And in Dodging Shells, you'll meet the irrepressible Tommy, as he fights his way through Italy in World War II. You'll love Tommy. I do.

Next? Well, that's a secret yet. Stay tuned...


(Dodging Shells gave you Tommy’s letters to his sister, from the front. This is the end of the last of Kathy’s letters in response, telling of life in wartime Toronto.)


…..I heard today that a couple of the other girls in the Personnel Department actually made it in to work yesterday. They got in…but they were trapped there and couldn’t get back home. They’re still there!

…..They’ve been bunking...

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Average rating: 3.80 · 30 ratings · 17 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
Once More, From the Beginning
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
Dodging Shells
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011

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“Women were valued highly in those days – not as highly as the least of men, of course, but well above the worth of all but the most superior livestock.”
Wendy Bertsch, Once More, From the Beginning

“Now that they had gotten wise, it took Adam no time at all to notice they were also naked. And once it caught his attention, he noticed it constantly.”
Wendy Bertsch, Once More, From the Beginning

“Let me be sure I understand this babies thing. These items are how big? . . . And they come out of WHERE?”
Wendy Bertsch, Once More, From the Beginning

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
Robert Frost

“Know thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.”
Alexander Pope

“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
H.L. Mencken

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