Delightful stories pieced together from a time when Shelley, her brothers, and her cousins felt carefree and invincible at their grandparent’s old, converted schoolhouse in the back country of Eastern Ontario.

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The laughter of pinecone fights, bear poop frisbee, yodelling on the lake, dune buggy adventures, magic school bus rides, and the quiet times learning and growing up together, combine to form a delightful collection of stories all ages will enjoy. They come from a time where imagination, freedom, security, love, and shenanigans reigned, centered around thirteen special years visiting Papa and Nan’s old, converted schoolhouse on a dusty old road somewhere between Tweed and Flinton in the back country of Eastern Ontario. This was the childhood paradise for seven lucky grandchildren – the Camelot where they had the freedom to just be kids. They might have only had 13 years in this beautiful spot, but it stayed with each one for life and made for some heartwarming, funny, and insightful stories.

 

 “Memories are funny things. They often come to us in fragments. It is like picking up pieces of sea glass - a bit here, a bit there, and fitting them together to make stories from a time when we were kids

on a dusty old road somewhere between Tweed and Flinton Ontario.”

- Shelley Holloway    

 

“Lively characters and vivid details draw you into this world of simpler times.

You are glad more stories are coming.”

- Dianne Hicks Morrow, former PEI Poet Laureate

 

“The memories were flashing as I was reading and I loved and enjoyed it all again."

- Christine Duquette Moore, a childhood

friend who lived in the house at the top of that dusty old road.

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Ask for On a Dusty Old Road somewhere between Tweed and Flinton at bookstores, general stores, and gift shops in the Tweed to Denbigh and Griffith corridor along Hwy 41 and Amazon. 

 

Shelley’s debut book, On a Dusty Old Road somewhere between Tweed and Flinton, was a lifetime in the making.  A former teacher, she has always loved reading and writing and is grateful to finally have the time to write every day. Encouraged by early successes of short stories published in newspapers, e-magazines and websites, and two recent poems selected for an anthology, Shelley is eager to expand her audience. She credits her writing group, The Gooseys, for being a constant source of inspiration and encouragement along the way. Shelley is working on a second collection centred on how food connects generations of family and her personal experience navigating the world of Post Concussion Syndrome.