by Caroline Crocker | May 23, 2025 | Writing
Picture the scene: My very patient and supportive husband and I are setting out for an Arts and Crafts fair, where Rambling Ruminations has a stall. “Where are we headed?” he asks. The Problem I pull up my website on my phone. “That’s the great thing about my...
by Caroline Crocker | May 20, 2025 | My books, Science
Are scientists made or born? Obviously, career scientists do need training, but why do they even bother? It certainly isn’t for the money! I can’t guess why anyone else did it, but I can explore why I became a scientist. Fashion? It was not as a fashion...
by Caroline Crocker | Apr 8, 2025 | Faith, Family, My books
Memorial Stones World War II ended 60 years ago. These children were murdered in 1944. They hadn’t done anything deserving of this fate–they were innocent children who happened to be Jewish. Some of them have family members who remember them. For others,...
by Caroline Crocker | Mar 27, 2025 | My books, Publishing, Writing
Now What? Your book is written. It is published. You’re proudly and tenderly holding a copy of your new ‘baby’ in your hands! The problem with this baby is that you have to sell it (here the analogy breaks down in a most unfortunate way). Marketing...
by Caroline Crocker | Mar 21, 2025 | My books, Publishing, Writing
My Current Project Over the past year, I’ve been focused on writing a series of children’s chapter books, the My Everyday Series. They are all about the eldest daughter of Dutch immigrants to Canada. If you hadn’t guessed, they’re loosely based...
by Caroline Crocker | Feb 18, 2025 | My books, Publishing, Writing
Siblings have some all-important conversations. As the eldest, it fell to me to explain to my brothers and sister what an innie, as opposed to an outie, is. There was some pride involved with being one or the other. Actually, I always thought that you have what you...
