

Holidays and the Hesperus
As a child, my grandmother would tell me to brush my hair, or straighten my clothes because I looked like the Wreck of the Hesperus. No,...


Kindness begins with cats on cycles
Is it too early to order an advent calendar? I saw one online that has a rock a day. Yup, my kind of adventing. But then my brain kicked...


Dancing to the music of thunder
Have you seen all the gadgets you can buy to stop snoring? Nose clamps, mouth thingies that hold the airways open and of course the...


Perfumed passions
As a child my grandmother took me to see Danny Kaye at the movies. I don't remember the title of the show, perhaps 'Me and the Colonel'...


Jorge the Fun Guy
I have had an exciting win this week. A few years back I was researching my husband's family tree and my MIL had traced it back to George...


Genius in one Olympian breath
My Dad would joke that we lived in a weekend rainfall area. Monday to Friday the sun would shine and the weather would be perfect for...


Decisively wishing upon a star
We are in the depths of Winter here in the Southern Hemisphere. Below freezing at night and creeping up to semi-warm during the day. I...


The splice of life and mountains of misery
Tomorrow it will be two years since my husband, Barry died. The end of one life and the beginning of another chapter in mine. When a rope...


Herding hoof hearted cats
Who watched the eclipse of the blood moon? I had an early start the next morning and had to get to bed early. Plus it was freezing,...


From Hallowed Land to Halloween
Something a little different. People have always asked about my theories around Halloween. So I wrote it up into a short non-fiction book...