"Mum started that [photo] album for me when I was knee high to a grasshopper. I don't know who that first one is, on the beach....

" But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream   Fitful and dark, " -  Hugh MacDiarmid  (1892–1978): “Edinburgh” So I travell...

Irena dipped a hand into the bucket and scattered a handful of the dry sand. "I didn't do anything. At least...I was hungry, so I...

Gia started to run as well, and Irena was forced into a trot to keep up, her bare feet stumbling in the sandy dirt. She turned a corner and...

Say hello to Sparrow Jones, the nine year old leader of the Brats. Sparrow lives in Garden City - a bright, idyllic, leafy pla...

I sleep surrounded by books. They are stacked in papery towers on the floor, jammed two deep on the shelves, and even hold my bedside lamp u...

I want to tell you of beautiful things like how the leaves on the cherry trees hang in the autumn air as if they've been pasted on ...