"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not fooling a soul." ~ Neil Gaiman SAVE THE DATE: JULY 20 & 21, 2024 Amherstburg Art Crawl at River Bookshop Something lovely has quietly come together over the past 6 months and today I am happy to share it with you here at The Beehive. Many of you know of a little book I wrote in memory of a delightful young woman who came into our lives for a b

With mild temperatures well into November there is more county driving on the calendar this year. This means more ‘car-conversations’. We talk about the weather, the progress the farmers are making in the fields, the glorious sunshine. And with very little prompting we talk about the past. There are two of us in the car – my mum and myself, but one can easily imagine the voices of long-passed family members sharing their delight in the memories that surface. No matter which r

Have you ever come across an image that stops you in your tracks? An image that calls out to you in a simple unspoken language – “See...

I like to draw. As a child whenever I left the house, I carried a notebook and pencil. Today in a cardboard box on a shelf in the basement there is a collection of my sketches from the late 1960s. Then it was all about fashion. Long-legged models in bell bottom jeans. Flowers in their hair. In grade school, art and music classes were scheduled once a week. Our teacher was a 23-year-old University graduate who cruised into the schoolyard in a yellow Ford convertible. We were m

I carried the remains of Sir John Johnson, last Baronet of New York, to their final resting place. Sir John Johnson died in Montreal in...