Apples and Roses

I can't remember exactly when I lost faith in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, friend and guide of my childhood, but I think it wa...

It was my birthday recently, and we made up for last year's rather locked-in occasion by going to one of Edinburgh's most celebrated...

These days, whenever I'm doing something, it's because I'm not doing something else. It's a bit depressing. If I'm readi...

My grandmother Gladys would have been 107 today, which would have been too much to ask for, really, as she was a heavy smoker until she quit...

Cold morning yesterday. I bundled my ageing, aching self--had to go back to the physio, £60--out the door and walked to the gym. When I came...

Today I had a Polish class over Skype. My tutor is in Kraków, and I am not. I know how to say "I miss Kraków" in Polish, so I said...

The Catholics who go to the archdiocese-approved Traditional Latin Mass every week are not ecstatic to be leaving our old wooden home. Howev...