Shelley's House

If I'm going to be 90, this is how I'd love to do it .  I mean, she's the absolute essence of Jenny Joseph's poem .  Except,...

We went to the Christmas Market at the Metro station yesterday, and of course I forgot to take my camera (I make and break habits more freq...

I recognize this might be a bit confusing, so let me explain.  This isn't actually a picture of a three-year-old opening one of his bir...

This is another chapter from Simple Pleasures .  I picked it up because I associate the phrase with frugality, also with a quieter more easy...

We were in the pub the other night after a run.  A football match was playing on the big screen at the other end of the room and I caught a ...

It was the Thanksgiving that almost wasn't.  We'd invited 40, expected 30, got 9.  Almost continual snow for the past few days meant...

Every year we have the Academy Awards presentations on TV and all around that time the media is flooded with clips from the nominated films ...