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In conversation with my Mother yesterday,You have a birthday coming up, she says to me(it’s still very much a month away)well, hopefully I will call you then even if you don’t, I tell her (one more time)I don’t keep score…
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In conversation with my Mother yesterday,You have a birthday coming up, she says to me(it’s still very much a month away)well, hopefully I will call you then even if you don’t, I tell her (one more time)I don’t keep score…
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Today,we have been held by our beloved housefor 29 yearsand I offer up much gratitudein knowing this this week,a big, beautiful maple treein the back garden, wastaken downresiding actually in the neighbour’s yardI had no say in its demise my…
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The morning openson a gentle kind of daythe kind one gets in mid-to-late Septemberthe kind one wishes tosavour the waning later daysofa seasoncherishable by its very nature the sky a soft, yet brilliantbluewhite clouds, both fluffy andwispreflecting the shineof the…
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About a month ago, I text himHey, I found our wedding song!it’s a song calledI Won’t Let You Down, by Toby Keiththe chorus of which is ♪ I ain’t got a pot of gold Girl I ain’t even got a…
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This morning lovely husband isup early, wee hours one might say,and I half-consciously listenfor his going in the darkness he comes quietlyand bends, to kiss me good-byesandback to sleepin kindness the dog lifts the blankets with his snoutsnuggles into the…
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August are ya feeling me?? A couple of cooler days, and someare ready topack it innights sneakily drawingclosera little earliereach timeand thoughts of souphave begun toswirl think, I am coasting alongenjoying the sunnot really lamenting the passage of timeother things…
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A rather ordinary sort of dayone might think,one in which nothing very spectacularmay behappening but one in which words from the lovelyKate Bowler, to be a loving presencewill set wings to my heart and a regular walk pastthe small window…
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Past the small window on the stairsalways, I peek outto check on a nest tucked cozily inthe junipernot easily seen from outsidebut just a perfect, safe spot for viewingfrominside the house built by a robinoriginally holding lovely blue eggsand then…
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From where I sit, I can seehigh up in the crab apple treea small feather blowing in the breezeas it quite activelycatchesthelightand my eye I wonder to myself about itstravelsand how it has come tolightjust here up through the branches,the…
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Just so you know,I have lodged a proper complaintto whom it may concernwiththe leader of the Mosquito Brigadecurrently plaguingallofoutdoors feeling a little confined,like there is so much sunshineto be feltand gorgeous hot temperaturesto swelter in, yet here I amrather quickly…
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