Windflowers

When Aristotle observed that “nature abhors a vacuum,” he was describing the physical world: how air and water rush in to fill an empty spac...

  Dear Del, You have been my childhood companion in anorak and swimsuit holidays in the rain.  A constant friend on those first exhilarating...

In 2019 a book was published entitled Epidemics and Society from the Black Death to the present. It was written by Frank M Snowden.  It is f...

A good heart, kindness embossed throughout, Expressed in word and deed. He stood upright, tall and regal. With a mind clear an...

I write, I pour out my angst, My guts, my blood. This is no way to earn a living It is an opening of the heart For no ...

Was down town trying to keep up with my mother.  She sets a blistering pace with daily tasks to be achieved and an attitude to life that is...

Am aware that I tend to fluctuate But after all that is me Riddled with self doubt But blown into action in a second Not clam and ...

We had some wonderful friends on Rhodes, Greece.   Jimmy and Eleni were just like angels.   We met Eleni, when we went to Greek classes at a...

Trusting in God is hard especially when times are really hard, when it seems as if not just one aspect of life goes wrong but many.  Wo...

At our creative writing group today we were asked to bring in poems and there was a surprising mixture but really enjoyable.  Here are two, ...