Trust – a comparatively small word but with a huge amount of meaning. What would life be like if we never trusted anything or anybody.…

By good fortune, I was able to raft down the Motu River in New Zealand twice during the last year. The magnificent four-day journey traverses…

I grew up in the Church of England. Christened and confirmed. I wore a white dress and a veil. I was married in the Presbyterian…

People call me Mrs ‘Meldrew’  I’m really quite a grump If anybody disagrees with me  I always get the hump ! I can argue till…

A New York Christmas Story Retold by S.E. Schlosser Back in the old days, I had a successful bake-shop in Albany. I had a good…

Hello Peeps…….now I know that bullying goes on in schools……..but I find it very disturbing what I have just read on my Facebook page……a mother…

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags…

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and a four-year old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred,…

There is a line from an old Runrig song which, to my mind, pays the greatest compliment possible. The line, directed at the singer’s lady…

O’Toole died and went to Heaven. Upon his arrival, a concerned St Peter met O’Toole at the Pearly Gates. ‘I’m sorry O’Toole,’ St Peter said,…