There is so much about winter that I love: twinkling lights, candles in every room, Christmas trees, Christmas services, presents, wrappi...

 "...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...