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Dear friends and fellow explorers of Life, I wish you a happy, healthy and abundant 2026. I’m excited about this new year. It feels pristine, uncluttered, a blank canvas awaiting my outpouring. We make the world first with our thoughts, then project it outside us through our words and actions. In light of that, resolutions…

When I was a child, in the late 1970s, the chimney on our house was not used for fires, we had an electric bar fire in the living room and then, when the money was available, central heating. One day I woke to a strange sound in my bedroom. Scrabbling, a kind of soft knocking…

October has started and we are moving towards Samhain and the Harvest of the Souls. Sounds pretty dramatic and a little creepy. It’s not really. It’s a time for reflecting on what lessons and wisdom we have harvested from the year, and a time for honouring our ancestors, the wisdom passed on to us through…

The Sitting Still House The lemon seeds I planted in February have germinated and as they have grown and flourished I’ve been thinking of the two strongest as Cookie and Lisa, in memory of my departed friends. I will attempt to overwinter them in the greenhouse, wrapped snuggly in a sheep’s wool jacket (packaging from…

After losing my oldest and much loved friend in February I decided to take a break from writing to focus on other areas of my life. During this time another beautiful person from my peer group has dropped her robe and passed beyond the Veil. It brings home to me with great intensity that life…

Welcome to Life! February is the time in the Northern Hemisphere when we see life returning to our gardens, parks, forests and wild places. For me this is the start of the new year. I know it as Candlemas or Imbolc. In fact, for me, the start of the new year is when I see…

Dear friends, I wish you all a very happy 2025, may you receive all that you need and desire, that does not yet seem possible to you! To everyone who has supported my efforts and read my books, my small offerings in the world, I send my grateful thanks. This morning I got up at…

The wheel has turned and Autumn is here with falling leaves and fading light, painting everything in gold. So far its been very special as I had my 60th birthday! I don’t feel that old in my mind and heart but my knees really do feel it :-). Time After Time continues to be written.…

The last three months have whizzed by as I start my third re-write of Time after Time! As part of my process, when I’m three quarters through the book, I sit and do a review of the characters, storyline and structure and have a read through. Mid June I decided to scrap about 50% of…

This is a big month for me. Five years after starting my official writing journey in 2019 I’ve got a website! Amazing. Thank you to Paul at Pixelism for setting up something that is crisp, clean and easy to navigate. Time After Time Update. 30% written and I hope it’ll be as fun and enjoyable…