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The Mystery of Love by Sherrie Hansen
The New Year is traditionally a time to set your eyes on new endeavors and shake things up a bit. Some think of it as being a time to start out with a clean slate, but to do that, the old slate has to...
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Seaside Daisy, a New Wildflowers Novel from Sherrie Hansen
If you’ve read any of my novels, seen my B&B or my house, followed my photographic journeys on Facebook, or even paid attention to the clothes and hats I wear, you know I love the imagery of...
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Bohemian Rhapsody Road Trip by Sherrie Hansen
Exhilarating and Exhausting are the words that seem to best describe our trip to Czechia from August 27 to September 17. We arrived in Prague tired and worn out and in need of rest and relaxation. When...
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The World is Waiting by Sherrie Hansen
Some of you know that I lived in Germany for three years when I was younger. I traveled throughout Europe when I was there and soaked up as much of the local culture as I could. I loved living in...
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Auld Lang Syne by Sherrie Hansen
Spring has finally started to poke its head out of the long-frozen ground. That’s one of the reasons I’m in the mood to tie up winter’s loose ends and move on to new adventures. By this time most...
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Comfort Foods and Calming Books by Sherrie Hansen
Here in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota, we’ve been snowed in by a blizzard for the last few days. For two days, we were completely cut off from the rest of the world by 6 and 7 foot high drifts...
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DNA = Deconstructed Niche Ancestry by Sherrie Hansen
According to Ancestry dot com, my DNA is a mishmash of curious combinations. While the main classifications that they identified held no great surprises, after seeing my DNA pie chart, I’m left with...
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The Mystery of Life by Sherrie Hansen
It’s been two months since I blogged – but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been writing. In late October, I dashed off a Christmas play called Count Your Blessings which has since been performed by...
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Merry of Soul, She Sailed on a Day, Over the Sea to Skye – by Sherrie Hansen
The next leg of our Scottish journey felt like coming home. We make it a point to see new places and things each time we come to Scotland, but we also plan return visits to places we didn’t get enough...
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Why Wildflowers? by Sherrie Hansen
Perhaps I carried a bouquet of goldenrod for good luck at some point in my life, because I certainly feel lucky to have visited Scotland three times – so far. As fans of Outlander know, most books set...
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Pseudo Allergies by Sherrie Hansen
Late summer is a golden time of year. Fields and ditches are full of goldenrod, tansy and black-eyed Susans blossoms shining bright in the sunlight. Springtime blues, lavenders and pinks gradually...
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A Grandfather, A Son, and Two Not-So-Holy Ghosts (by Sherrie Hansen)
Although my Wildflowers of Scotland books are contemporary, I always find a way to weave in a wee bit of history… an old kirk with architectural and religious artifacts gone missing, a sunken Spanish...
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Seaside Daisy? Am I Crazy? by Sherrie Hansen
What started it all was a stretch of wind-swept, treeless terrain and a bright blue cottage built from timber washed ashore after a shipwreck. I’ve always loved the notion of “if these walls could...
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If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words by Sherrie Hansen
An almost full moon reflected off a pond hugged by beds of flowers in blues, yellows and violets of various heights. In the center, a fountain trickled down the neck and breasts of a stone statue of a...
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Lessons Learned in a Bluebell Wood by Sherrie Hansen
My love of bluebells is no secret. They bloom in the woods near my B&B every year in late April or early May. I’ve watched their pink and purple buds turn into intense, periwinkle blue flowers,...
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Golden-Haired, Most Fair, Prince Rod of Lachlan by Sherrie Hansen
If Prince Rod of Lachlan sounds like something straight from the pages of a fairy tale, you’re right. When Katelyn O’Neal, a reluctant “princess” from Minnesota, inherits a castle from a great uncle...
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What a Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful World by Sherrie Hansen
There’s no better way to spend a wintery day than to plan a summer vacation. My home in northern Iowa got over ten inches of snow on Thursday night and Friday. The murder mystery we had scheduled for...
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A Rainbow in Winter by Sherrie Hansen
In real life, it’s called a bad case of the blues, losing hope, or hitting rock bottom. In a book, it’s called the black moment – that devastating culmination of circumstances when all momentum comes...
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2017 – A Blank Canvas by Sherrie Hansen
One of the highlights of 2016 for me has been that I’ve started to paint. I won’t say I learned to paint, because except for a 3-4 minute online tutorial on how to paint flowers and leaves, I haven’t...
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Being Grateful for Things I’ve Always Taken for Granted by Sherrie Hansen
Those who are close to me know that I’m approaching a milestone birthday. (I’ll let you guess which one.) In some ways, I don’t think it will make a difference in the way I lead my life, or how I feel...
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