Apples and Roses

I read a lot of bad and sad news for work, which makes me unhappy. To cope, I have been keeping a "wellness journal"; I bought a p...

Driving is expensive. It burns fossil fuel. It is not strictly necessary in a Scottish urban environment. My husband is anti-car, and I woul...

Every year when Lent approaches, I think about the Eastern Churches, especially the Greek Orthodox. Their Lenten traditions of fasting and a...

Actual spouse in hospital. When, to my great surprise, someone splendid wanted to marry me and indeed did, a reader suggested that I begin t...

Just a tiny post to say that this has been the tastiest Lent ever because, in an attempt to have a strict Lent, I worked out a six week supp...

Yesterday afternoon I found a tall cardboard box outside our door. It contained a tall budding stem in a plastic pot and a smaller, somewh...

I love minimalism when it means not having a lot of stuff. (I'm not so keen, I seem to recall, on minimalist art.) When B.A. was terribl...