Last Sunday was the first time I got to spend Mothering Sunday with my mum in 28 years. Isn’t it crazy? To make it special I had booked a tour of Highclere Castle in Berkshire – the home of ‘Downton Abbey – for the two of us; mom is a huge Downton fan, she watches …
Motherhood (by Medora C Addison) Playing alone by the ocean’s edge, eager and unafraid, you are the child I used to be, playing the games I played. Now I have only a cowards’ heart, finding you all too dear, learning at last that love shall teach the fearless how to fear. You are so little …
… I do have a few things to show you, but I’m trying to catch up on life today and I have a really busy weekend ahead so for now let’s keep to the original schedule. As you know this past week my American friend/AFS sister was visiting from California and we’ve spent most of …
(photos from 1989… the day we left for our European adventure, I’m on the left with a giant fringe, S is on the right wearing the most awful shorts) A Time To Talk (by Robert Frost) When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t …
I’m still here. A little snowbound, a little frozen, burst pipes and beef stews, living a slow life with a friend visiting from sunny California… (I think she’s the happiest person in England with all this snow and cold she normally never sees or experiences!). Yesterday though we wrapped up warm and drove the short …
while you're ahead... 