9 September 2023

One truly special place we went in Rome was Basilica di Santa Maria in Ara Coeli atop Capitoline Hill. We climbed the hundred or so steps to the top on our very last morning there. At that moment, we found ourselves lost in one of the most impressive and eclectic sites we visited in Italy….

3 September 2023

Victoria, B.C. is truly the edge of North America. Even your phone thinks you are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean when you are standing in the middle of downtown. I’ve always loved it. My husband and I got married there. We buried a son there. I immigrated to Canada there. So many tentpole…

26 August 2023

An excerpt from 10 Days In Italy by Robin Rivers and Mhari Rhiverson Tearing up at the sound of Michael Bublé’s voice shouldn’t shock anyone. However, the circumstances surrounding a recent encounter with the crooner gave Mhari and me a moment of pause—a moment brought to us as proof that serendipity is alive and well…

3 July 2023

I couldn’t contain my excitement. Yesterday, I received the news that my debut novel, Woman On The Wall, The Sibylline Chronicles Vol. 1, has been named a finalist for the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards for BC Authors. What a moment to find myself included on the list that celebrates the countless…