take your dreams seriously for joy and self fulfillment.
The play’s the thing
WOW! an unexpected performance!
I can remember
Some things from the past are worth losing. Some aren’t.
Why buy when you can borrow?
Libraries going extinct? Heaven forfend!
Kitchen Sounds.
Almost missed a momentous event amid the routine of supper prep.
Campaigners
learning to love in a new way
The lowest point of the trip
A surprising gift on a very grim trip.
Essence of Mother
Have you ever tried to capture the essence of someone you know well, in a single story?
HAPPINESS!
Gnashed teeth of jealousy but praise for Bill Bailey’s recent book. The gnashing, because he manages to write, illustrate, and publish a book during lockdown, while I, after a couple of years scratching through my first book, am nowhere near letting its fragments see the light of day. Praise, because those who read his book… Continue reading HAPPINESS!
Poems and Punkah
Grandmother: “How do you like to go up in a swing, up in the air so blue?” Me, pulling and repeating: “How do you like to go up in a swing, up in the air so blue?” Grandmother: “Oh I do think it the pleasantest thing ever a child can do.” Me: “Oh I do… Continue reading Poems and Punkah
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