Maybe it’s the winter. Maybe it’s the age I’m at. Maybe I’m just too distracted, probably by books. Whatever the impetus, every so often...

I have the good luck combined with good planning to be able to spend a fair bit of time in nature. Without it, I'd be a mess. Nature...

I admit it. I was wrong. Or maybe just misguided. I have since been corrected, or elucidated, or just shown a different approach toward...

April is the cruelest month (with apologies to TS Eliot) These days should be all growth, hope and colour, but the number of grey hours...

I've been thinking about names lately. Character names, pet names, weird names, last names, famous names... When a character in a story...