Windflowers

It was my first time living away from the student residence at university. The six months I had spent there had been horrid and frightening....

The weeds are rampant in their triumph over all my endeavours. I wrestle them out pulling hand fulls, bucket fulls and even filling my bin. ...

I watched a young mother phone her family from her hospital bed across from me. The conversation was overheard in the darkness of the ward w...

When there are no clouds, you can see with sudden clarity.  The brilliance of the autumn leaves, the rusty reds, glowing oranges take your b...

I know it is sad to stand at a funeral and remember someone but in Gertrude’s case, she was really ready “to go to sleep and not wake up”, a...

My grandmother died aged 25 when my father was only 14 months old. One of the few photos we have is her sitting with him, a baby on her lap....

This summer, the day before I was due to fly to Boston from the UK, my front tooth came out! We’d been cleaning out kitchen c...

I stumbled upon this garden in Northern Ireland this summer. I had noticed it from the road some years ago but hadn't ventured i...