“Gervase, I’ve Lost a Toy Shop”

5 years ago

Always fun to find half-remembered books. One bonus of this decluttering lark is that you find so many of them.…

Clearing the Clutter

5 years ago

These days find me busy clearing and chucking, sorting and sifting, storing and saving. Three truck loads of stuff cleared…

The Games They Played

5 years ago

A recent visit to Montreal found us at the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal Fortified with coffee and breakfast…

Sports Report and the Spots of Time

5 years ago

It's a late afternoon on a winter Saturday of my childhood. And that means the big Ferguson radio - the…

Escape from the Spirit People

5 years ago

When a re-wired, pack-rat educator takes a deep dive in the basement there's no telling what she will find in…

A Walk and a Heron Fishing

5 years ago

A walk around the lake at Innisfree Garden.

From Minty to Moses – the Extraordinary Fierce and Fearless Harriet Tubman

5 years ago

In September we heard Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Oprah Winfrey at the Apollo in NYC. The topic was his…

Look Up, Look Down, Look Out

5 years ago

Before all the leaves are down take a moment to look up. This is Innisfree Garden last Saturday.  Big Halloween…

The Irish Airman and Time for a Flu Shot

5 years ago

Yeats wrote the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" (see Game of Swans) in 1916 /17 when he was staying…

Decomposition

5 years ago

Decomposition I have a picture I took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement: grey-haired, wearing shorts and…