Journaling 101: The how, why, what, where and the difference it’s made…

For two decades now I have scribbled in books endlessly. I have over 50 journals, in various shapes, sizes, colours and textures, that are records of my time on this earth. To me, they are beautiful. They are filled with words, pictures, mementos and more, and they are my life, for better or for worse. I’m asked about them so…
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The love of my life…

This afternoon, as I walked through Notting Hill, coat bundled around my waist, hot coffee warming both my palms and endless leaves crunching under my feet, I realised I’m in love. Head over heels, beyond possible obsessed love.  Over the past twenty years in London, I have listened to endless love songs, as I walked across fog filled bridges, over…
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Soul Searching in the South for a spell

I know you’re here today looking for answers. Mainly… why did I leave Hampshire so abruptly after 15 months of sharing a countryside I had truly fallen head over heels in love with. Well, I’ll start by saying you probably aren’t going to get the juicy gossip you’re hoping for here. So, don’t cancel your nightly watching of Real Housewives…
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Dear Mr. Ralph Lauren, I’d like to talk to you about …

Dear Mr. Lauren, I’m 99% sure you have no clue who I am. We met once, at a dinner two years ago in London, where I, like a starstruck teenager, could only mutter, “I absolutely love everything you’ve ever made. Thank you.” I’ve been thinking a lot about that meeting and what I could have said, if I had been…
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Death in the Time of Covid: A Show of Community in a …

It seems to me that a great deal of stories being told at the moment, by the press, are words of doom and gloom. We’re being given numbers, of new Covid cases, deaths, vaccinated, percentage points of vaccine working or not working. We’re being given dates, of shops opening, restaurants taking reservations and potential travel allowance. We’re being told our…
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