Unpacking My Bottom Drawer

This is one of my favourite times of year. Apart from the heat. I hate the heat. Today, though, it’s a blessedly cool 16 degrees

We’re five years into an 18-month renovation. We’re at the point now where I walk into a room and feel not the anxiety of yore

This day, two years ago, I woke up without my father. He’d died shortly after midnight. He’d been hanging on, I’m sure, for the feast

If it weren’t for Americans, nothing would get done. Not in my house, anyway. And not all Americans, just those who visit. And not nothing,

How little I know about space and space agencies is embarrassing. Mind you, this lack of knowledge hasn’t kept me awake at night and until

I was in Poland, many moons ago, for a friend’s wedding. I remember hearing Panis Angelicus for the first time and being moved to tears.

A few weeks back, Robert Francis Prevost was catapulted onto the world stage. He went from being low-key famous to world famous in a matter

Four books into David Crosby’s Will Harper series, I sat back and thought, okay, that’s new. I like crime novels. If they’re well written, I

It seems like an easy thing, to find beauty in everyday life. Yet for many of us, including myself, it requires a conscious effort, particularly

Visiting friends in a neighbouring village the other night, we worked ourselves into a right old lather discussing what’s going on in the world. The

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