"...had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider t...

Beannacht - John O'Donohue O n the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance yo...

A couple of weeks before we put Bear down, when he could still go for a proper(ish) walk, he stopped on the lawn of a small community...

I've been thinking lately about niches, how I might be more successful in the Web-o-sphere if I wrote say, a vegan cooking blog, or had...

One of the most comforting places in the world for me is my grandmother's kitchen.  She is not a gourmand, although she will try ...

"Develop interest in life as you see it, in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with ri...

I heard Beck's song "Lost Cause" this week, off Sea Change , and it threw me back to my twenties.  It's fair to say...