Footlights Nursery…
Footlights Nursery…
/ September 18, 2023 0 COMMENTS
Footlights officially has three bedrooms, it’s on the Zillow description. But ...
Two Hundred Miles Later…
Two Hundred Miles Later…
/ August 18, 2023 0 COMMENTS
My blue-eyed cowboy and I walked two hundred miles in 32 days. We were in London, we didn’t hike or go for intentional forced marches (as my son calls them) the mileage ...
The Party…
The Party…
/ July 20, 2023 0 COMMENTS
The landmark birthday party lasted a few hours and was typically English. For those of you who don’t know what that means, dancing happens – immediately! Even in private ...
Pain Management…
Pain Management…
/ March 15, 2023 0 COMMENTS
I’ve had lower back pain since my mid to late twenties. Everything to do with over flexibility, high arabesques, dazzling contretemps, amazingly flat turn outs and a lot of peer ...
This Exhilarating State of Being…
This Exhilarating State of Being…
/ October 9, 2022 0 COMMENTS
Slowly God is returning my time to me and I’m faithfully loosening my grip. Subbing at school is dwindling and there are whole months when I feel as though I’m getting lost ...
Smelling the Ground Coming to Life…
Smelling the Ground Coming to Life…
/ September 13, 2022 0 COMMENTS
Texas’ weather is as unpredictable as England’s. This summer was no exception. Remembering 2011 – – our sons were living alone at Collins while we were in London ...
A Task and a Half at Malin Road…
A Task and a Half at Malin Road…
/ April 14, 2022 0 COMMENTS
At the beginning of 2020 Hubs and I travelled to England for a cultural break. It was January, no-one goes to England in the winter for the weather, and since London is my hometown and ...
The Visitor Never the Visited…
The Visitor Never the Visited…
/ April 7, 2022 0 COMMENTS
Once I graduated from college and left England to live in Texas my relationship with my Uncle was relegated to regular as clockwork cards on birthdays, Christmas and Easter. All simply ...
A Charmed and Magical Life….
A Charmed and Magical Life….
/ March 21, 2022 0 COMMENTS
One of our first stops when we returned from London was to go and visit our grand-daughters who live on a bird facility, owned by their parents, called Window to the Wild Theirs is a ...
My Uncle Tone…
My Uncle Tone…
/ February 25, 2022 0 COMMENTS
It had been 56 years since my Uncle Tony, Tone to his parents, bought his three-bedroomed house in Littlehampton. He had been a single man of 31, around the age of my children now, and ...
Interment…
Interment…
/ February 12, 2022 1 COMMENTS
My brother and I interred our late uncle’s ashes shortly before my six week visit to London ended. I took no photographs of the ceremony; ‘I wanted to stay focused’ I ...