Ashokan Stroll

3 years ago

A short drive to the Catskills and a Saturday stroll along the Ashokan Reservoir Promenade. Wildflowers growing in the cracks…

The Happiest Day

3 years ago

They say the day you get a boat is the happiest day of your life. That is, until the day…

Evacuee Story Lines #2 C. S. Lewis

3 years ago

"What are you doing in the wardrobe?" "Narnia business" C.S."Jack" Lewis spent childhood years in a house in Belfast where…

Evacuee Story Lines #1 Nina Bawden

3 years ago

All our stories begin before we are born. Not Just the blue eyes or flat feet we inherit, but the…

The Rock Swop

3 years ago

Took a stroll around the perimeter and something colorful caught my eye. There - discretely propped against a generator close…

Large Dog Eats Anything Loves Children

3 years ago

It’s always fun when a tiresome book about the rules of the English language gets debunked and when some clever…

Ice

3 years ago

I was first drawn to Anna Kavan’s writing through her collection of wartime stories I Am Lazarus (1945) - the…

War Souvenir

3 years ago

My father did not bring much back from his six years of war. He would have had his demob suit…

Anna and Gertrude

3 years ago

“I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace, I like to paint simple things that are a…

The Thinking

4 years ago

This post is in answer to the question "Operation Pied Piper: What were they thinking?" At least in terms of…