Have caught a bit of a summer cold, I think, which has interfered with my ability to finish a piece of writing I had been working on. I was able to make it out on the beach for the first part of the day at […]
RHUBARB CIDER AND MOLL FLANDERS
It was a rather chilly and misty start to the day, which saw me purchasing a heavier jumper to wear on my rambling. I wish I could say the excitement grew after this, but after an early afternoon cream tea and scouring two bookstores, the […]
SLEEPSONG
I’ve been in awe of this video since it was first posted a few years ago. Just beautiful. Wondrous.
CUPPA WITH A VIEW
After years of waiting and wanting, I’m finally in Lyme Regis. Jane Austen. Mary Anning. Two hearts and minds I’ve treasured. Heading out shortly to see what I can wander myself into…
REMEMBERING, PART 2: MAYBE AVALON*
Yeats wrote “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” As I headed out on a post-breakfast walk the morning after our late arrival at Crapnell B & B, my senses had never been more sharp, nor more […]
REMEMBERING, PART 1: CARS WITHOUT MIRRORS*
In some little village off the M5 she took off 3 car door mirrors. It couldn’t have been easy driving on the wrong side of the road. I’m not sure I would have done any better, but as the passenger on that left side, my […]
WILD HEARTS CAN’T BE BROKEN
Still thinking about the Dimbley Lecture given by Jeanette Winterson. I’ve long admired her writing, her thinking, and recently re-read ‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?’ as part of my study of memoir–eager to do a more in depth analysis of this work […]
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BREATH
It isn’t the wear and tear of getting older even though it began over years and not days when I was still hiking mountains. Along with the occasional fire and stiffness in my knees and hips and neck I noticed that I could no longer […]
GOT NARNIA?
I’m back in my London room from a night out and once again, my mind has turned childlike: I just cannot escape the thought that Narnia is in this wardrobe. I only hope the White Queen doesn’t charge out in the middle of the night…. […]
THESIS, GRADUATION….
This morning was slow going as it was only yesterday I landed in London. Jet lag. My poor body just doesn’t like traveling, even I do. After a day or two all should be righted, but it was only just a bit ago that I […]
DYNAMITE
Don’t know where I am with you Forgetting time and space with you Oh, I wish we had a common view You see my red as blue I don’t belong in your universe For better or for worse I’m the same, but […]
FLOWERS
Flower arranging is an art, and it’s one that I have no skill at. Which is why I appreciate those who do so very much–especially when it comes to mother’s day. It’s not very imaginative as gifts go, but every mother’s day I get my […]
