Winter has arrived and it's freezing! For the first time in years, I've had to skip the daily walk a few times this week. My kids...

Happiest of New Years to you! I had no intention of the radio silence for so long. It's been so hard for me to summon the interest to sit...

Several years ago, I embarked on a poetry writing journey. Each morning, I would wake early, pull out my notebook and scribble lines...

" She takes a deep breath of the autumn air, crisp & peppery, fuevulous & sweet, she feels it crackle down to the bottom of her lungs....

" Autumn is my season, dear. It is, after all, the season of the soul." {Virginia Woolf} If you've been around here for very long, you'll...

" The deliciousness of discovering a masterwork. The beauty of the first sentences, the 'what is this?', the 'how can it be?', the first...