Monthly Archive: November 2016

it feels not quite like an ache rather more like a bubbling maybe it’s a twinkling of toes at my centre the scattering of words that start to dance in my head and it feels in my heart the sky…
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when first i wake the sun is shining put the coffee on to perk and warm to the smell of cinnamon and dark roast outside the window a beautiful little nuthatch sits atop the suet cake while the grey squirrel…
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Behind me the other day, as I sat reading my book,  was a conversation about nutrition, about the additives and unhealthiness of food…. when a comment was made “that all the plastics in our food was what they say is causing…
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I’ve just been to pick up a book at the library,  it’s called The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit.  I’m not ready for it, as I am still about 200 pages away from finishing one, but sometimes this is just…
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What if all you could offer the world was kindness? to a week that starts in wonder and worry and quickly descends into chaos and confusion disappointment and disbelief and you find yourself unable to sleep suddenly everything is LOUD…
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I don’t understand… I don’t understand meanness in the world I don’t want to listen to loud angry voices insults and accusations rhetoric and banter lies and plagiarism nasty words seeking victims and for one minute think that this is…
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This week, my youngest child graduated high school.  Our years of public and secondary school are now officially behind us.  For many years, when my children were small, I volunteered at the school. I helped children with fine motor skills,…
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I am very fond of my birthday.  I suppose it comes from my Mother’s ability to always make us feel very special for that one fabulous day, in any small way she could.   I’m not a big fan of…
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