Sun pours down like honey

Hard to believe it is ten years since he passed. My Dad would have been 90 today.  Just the other day I came across a book I would have wa...

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader....

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed. - Patti Smith, Just Kids

There is the giant rock in my back yard, freed at last from overgrown clumpy bushes and mid-sized trees that had taken it over in the last d...

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. - S.W. Duffield

It is a shameful thing to insult a little child.  It has its feelings, it has its small dignity; and since it cannot defend them, it is su...

Send me a bird, send me its song, send me a story a lifetime long. Send me some blue, send me some shine, send me something I know is ...

You can't give of what you have if you don't know what you've got. - Elan Morgan, We Can Become Known

I was seriously born into the wrong country.  If only my mother had gone to Scotland and fallen in love with my Dad there instead of...

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy to say a new poem, The Unfinished is Nothing, is up at Otis Nebula.  Am very pleased to be in such great company.  Please click rig...

Happy Father's Day to my Dad who is in the part of Heaven that looks like Scotland (or maybe that is Heaven - Scotland with a wee touc...

 After work and quite overcast after a spectacular day where so many people coming in the library remarked about the sun and the glorious ...

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.   -Andre Gide

 Well, of course, Captain Underpants had to come to BEA if there is yet another book release in this mind-bogglingly successful series for...

baby turtle too fast for the likes of me. 

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not sure what happened to the unicorn cookies - puffed up and then my freehand icing smiles didn't help.  I am told they were delis...

I have probably posted this prior but I do so love Dr. Alice Roberts ever since I saw her BBC special on Wild Swimming - so here is a fun ...