Elinor Florence's Blog, page 6

Top Ten Trips

What are your top ten trips? My granddaughter Nora, shown here in a canola field at the Florence Family Farm in Saskatchewan, shows how I feel about travelling again! After restrictions are eased, there are ten places I dearly want to visit.

On Turning Seventy

Dear Friends: After reaching a benchmark of seventy years recently, I came up with a few personal observations on aging.

My Book Club Recommends

My book club recommends these top ten selections. In the past twenty-five years, we have read hundreds of books, but it wasn’t until five years ago that we started rating them on a scale of one to ten. These ten books were ranked very highly by everyone.

How to Publish Your Own Cookbook

Here's a quick guide on how to publish your own cookbook and create a wonderful keepsake for your own family members.

The Royal Family and Me

The royal family and I go back a long way, since I've been fascinated with them since my earliest memory. Here’s a personal history of my lifelong association with this unique clan.

Beating the Covid Blues

Beating the covid blues during a cold Canadian winter is no easy feat. Reading novels is just one of several ways I’m keeping myself entertained.

Ten Best Blogs

To kick off the new year, I have selected ten of the best blogs that I think YOU, dear readers, might enjoy.

Tour My Traditional Tree

My old-fashioned traditional tree simply glitters with nostalgia, and this Christmas season I want to share some of my favourite ornaments with you.

Ten Wonderful Wartime Women

These ten wonderful wartime women, four of them still living, volunteered to serve their countries in World War Two. Please read their stories and remember our veterans, today and always.

Behind the Book Covers

People often ask whether the woman on the book cover of Bird’s Eye View is a real person, so here’s a peek into the lengthy design process for all three of my book covers.