The second half of: “The Island,” by Tove Jansson. Part one is here. It’s a rickety structure, one pays for…
The IslandFrom: “The Island” by Tove Jansson There is a surprisingly large number of people who go around dreaming about…
All the islands I have known become one island whose Eastern coast spreads sandy arms to welcome bathers and sea…
In his series of WW1 epitaphs, Rudyard Kipling comments on the all too common fate of a new soldier at…
I did, in the first weeks of the war, before I got my commission, suffer severely from 'evacuees'.- Evelyn Waugh in…
‘Oh, I know all about goats,’ Sonia was saying. ‘People give them the same recommendation as the billeting officers did…
A short drive to the Catskills and a Saturday stroll along the Ashokan Reservoir Promenade. Wildflowers growing in the cracks…
They say the day you get a boat is the happiest day of your life. That is, until the day…
"What are you doing in the wardrobe?" "Narnia business" C.S."Jack" Lewis spent childhood years in a house in Belfast where…
All our stories begin before we are born. Not Just the blue eyes or flat feet we inherit, but the…
Took a stroll around the perimeter and something colorful caught my eye. There - discretely propped against a generator close…
It’s always fun when a tiresome book about the rules of the English language gets debunked and when some clever…
I was first drawn to Anna Kavan’s writing through her collection of wartime stories I Am Lazarus (1945) - the…
My father did not bring much back from his six years of war. He would have had his demob suit…