Back to old-fashioned reading

I spend way too much time online, between work, life & constant learning I’ve lost touch with the pleasure of holding an old fashioned book in my hands. So, this is the homework I’ve given myself for the next month (or two!) Please feel free to ask me where I am, it will help me get through them if you hold me to it! “You Are Here” by Thomas M. Kostigen:... Read More

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it

“We have a pair of swallows that have built their nest in exactly the same place on a wooden beam in the tool shed for the past six years, and it is amazing to me how they fly off thousands of miles to North Africa in the autumn with their young and then six months later they find their way back to the same tool shed at Gypsy House, Great Missenden, Bucks. It’s a miracle... Read More

Shadow Wash

I’ve never washed my shadow out In all the time I’ve had it. It was absolutely filthy I supposed, And so today I peeled it off The wall where it was leaning And stuck it in the washtub With the clothes I put in soap and bleach and stuff I let it soak for hours I wrung it out and hung it out to dry, And whoever would have thunk That it would have gone and shrunk For now... Read More

Listen to the musn’ts

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child Listen to the DON’TS Listen to the SHOULDN’TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be -Taken from “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein  Read More

The Land of Happy

Have you been to the The Land of Happy, Where everyone’s happy all day, Where they joke and they sing Of the happiest things, And everything’s jolly and gay? There’s no one unhappy in Happy, There’s laughter and smiles galore. I have been to The Land of Happy - What a bore!! -Shel Silverstein, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”    Read More