This is a question recently posed to my English class, which mostly consists of ladies approaching my own age, so I thought the answers...

June 20, 2024 (Solstice) (This is a summer solstice post, when the day is the longest of all the year. At present I am reading “The World...

Morgan Spurlock is dead. The iconic critic of fast food and capitalism, activist, and promotor of healthy living in books and movies has...

Recently some things about life in general have struck me as funny because they are so ironical. See what you think. 1) There is an app...

One of the few things I like about travel (as I get older, I increasingly don’t cotton to the uncomfortable aspects of it) is the...

(The photo shows "The Transformer", painted in 2016.) This time I’d like to write about what I, personally, think about life and death in...

(The picture is an original watercolor painting by me called “The Pilgrim”, 2013.) Recently I had to ponder a very important issue, which...

(The picture shows a detail of what is believed to be the Japanese visual master Hokusai’s last work, Dragon Flying over Mt. Fuji,...

(It will be the Winter Solstice in a few days, and after that the Ferris wheel of the seasons will start going up again, it will get...

November 20, 2023 (Caveat: I don’t pretend to be any kind if expert on physics, theoretical or otherwise. The ideas in this blog arise...

Recently I read an interesting excerpt from Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth. Basically, he said that when you get older, your body...

My second son’s first word, as a toddler, was “go”. He used to run to my car, pull on the door handle, and say “Go! Go!” He is now almost...

(Grossness alert: Since this post is largely about what a rural middle-aged female feels in summer, there will be a bit of grossness here...

(The accompanying photo shows part of a picture I made several years ago depicting the notes of my wind chimes.) Recently I went away for...

Hello, everyone, and apologies for being late to wish everyone a happy Solstice. This year I was in Australia for the winter solstice. In...

Recently I had a chance to read an interesting essay entitled “The Stones of Kyoto”. Okay, I thought, this will be about famous stones in...

(The photograph shows a hall in a Japanese railway station.) When I was living in Australia with my family in the 70s, we lived in a...

(I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Equinox. The subject of this blog may in some way be linked to this period in...

Recently my husband and I have been watching “The Crown” on Netflix。As anyone who has followed the history of Britain in the 20th and...

Recently I have been writing about my early married life in this house, and the differences from the life I now live. I think every woman...