Notes from an almost-empty-nester
I love train travel. I always have. I love the solitude of it, curling up with a book or idly looking out of the window watching trees, fields, buildings rush by.
Long journeys are even more fun. For those hours, you are disconnected from the world, its requirements, its demands, its worries. That more than anything, is what I love, the peaceful solitude.
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I know why bears hibernate. I really do.
But let me begin at the beginning.
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The year started on a happy reading note for me with A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers. Although pegged as sci-fi, there’s very little ‘sci’, though it is definitely futuristic fiction.
Continue reading “A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers – Book review and a few thoughts”
Hello dear friends. Happy happy New Year. I maintain, it is perfectly valid to wish people a happy new year all through January, so here I am, right on time.
Continue reading “Celebrations and Resolutions, 2026 Edition”
The minute someone says pick three (or two or four) people who made a difference to your life, my mind goes completely B.L.A.N.K.
Not because no one did, but because too many did.
Continue reading “We are an ensemble production”