Hi, everyone! I'm taking a professional hiatus this year for personal reasons but am still monitoring my social and blogs. I'll be back working on new books in 2025.
If you're looking for my already published books, you can find them here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dana-Davis/author/B0033HDLVC
Other links are on my website: http://www.danadaviswriting.com/Novels.html
Have a safe summer and stay cool!
As a genealogy nerd, I celebrate my Irish ancestors in March, and I have a number of them in my paternal and maternal sides from various counties in the northern and southern parts of Ireland. I also have a high number of Scottish ancestors from the Highlands, Midlands and Lowlands. I have green eyes, natural red highlights (though I was blonde as a young child), and I carry the red hair gene. I inherited lots of freckles too, which also means I sunburn easily. My paternal grandfather was nicknamed Red because of his red hair, though I only ever knew him with white hair.
If you add my Irish and Scottish DNA amounts together, they make up almost half of me. I also carry Viking DNA. Vikings settled in Ireland and intermarried with Irish people so these results weren't a surprise. The highest DNA location for the other half of me is Celtic Britain. I've always been fascinated by ancient Brits, like Boudicca, so maybe my DNA explains that too.
But this month, I focus on the Irish lineages of my family tree, the wearing o' the green, and eating more potatoes. I've been a vegetarian since high school so no meats for me. Hubby is the house chef and he makes some good potato dishes. He's making one tomorrow night for dinner.
So Happy St Paddy's month! Don't forget to wear green on the special day if you celebrate. I'm lucky that with my green eyes, I never get pinched.
On a side note - I'm on a publishing hiatus for a while due to personal reasons, but please check out my previously published books if you're interested in reading my work at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dana-Davis/author/B0033HDLVC
We thought all our medical troubles would be behind us in the new year but at my December skin check, a biopsy showed melanoma in situ. Thankfully, it was stage 0 so the surgeon was able to remove all of it and it hadn't spread to any of my organs. It took 2 surgeries though, one in Dec and one in Jan, and a month of me being on lifting and workout restrictions.
Not how I expected the first month of the new year to go. And now I have to go in every 3 months for years to come for skin checks. I'm not looking forward to that because I don't enjoy doctors' offices, but it's necessary. Even though I use a 50 SPF sunblock, I'm a pasty, freckled Scottish, Irish, British and Scandanavian descendant who carries the red hair gene and got sunburned as a child, so I'm a prime candidate for skin cancer. But ANYONE can get melanoma.
Here's to an uneventful remainder of 2024 for us, at least medically. I urge you all to get that yearly skin check. And don't forget the sunblock!
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