I like to stare, don't you? At half past six this morning, coffee in hand, I was staring at the moon as it headed west. Later, we went for a walk, and I was staring at the reflections in the canal. And at a cormorant gulping down a rather large fish. Someone wrote,...

Shirley took this pic in the gardens of the castle on Skye. Not long before the movie, "Honey, I shrunk the kids" was doing the rounds. So she daclared, "Look, I shrunk Mum!" Which leaves me wondering - no one can shrink us - that's true. Someone can grow us - that's...

"What a well-oiled machine," I found myself thinking, one Saturday morning. It was a rowing team churning up the waters of one of the canals flowing through Century City. The amount of effort, the timing, and cooperation were all so impressive. In His mighty high...

Little keepsake, bought in Williamsburg, Virginia, on my way to a week's residency at Regent University, Virginia Beach. A friend put me up in Washington for a few days and then drove me all the way to the university. A friend put me up while I was staying there. A...

What a charming ornament to put on your window sill - to love again, every time you walk past and open you front door. Who knows when it charmed the owner of this little house in Isafjordur in Iceland to that point that it prompted them - probably her - to lovingly...

Prince William talks of a "brutal year" largely at the hands of cancer. Politics tear Americans apart. The new taxes stun the UK. Germany sees its coalition government tumble and shatter. Closer home dear sisters have their cancer markers climb. The stress of the...

It's not mine but perhaps it is your birthday today? I don't know. I also don't know how many you've had - good ones, bad ones, sad ones, and terrific ones too. What I do know is that there is one who knows. He knows that my daughter at thirty-nine had had all the...

Every time I look at this pic I get blanketed with joy. This is about friendship deep and true. This is about sharing and laughter and also about really being there for each other. So many giggles and nonsense - and also so much being there for each other when life...

Some places help us to be still - like these, don't you think? The passage of the Norwegian Star is sufficiently slow to help us with that. She successfully unfolds Christian Sund for us and we fall silent many times. A good thing? Yes, I find it so because the...

Years ago when I was in charge of Children's Church I organized a pantomime to entertain the children at their Christmas party. We put on "Cinderalfred" and turned the story of Cinderella upside down. We had such fun and each played our parts with gusto. (I'm not sure...