“When you are finished changing, you are finished.” -Benjamin Franklin “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” -Benjamin Disraeli The Benjamins were right, weren’t they? Some people are great at staying calm and unruffled even when being tossed about roughly on… Continue Reading
You may have noticed that I do not get political in my column here at aNewsCafe’. There are other writers here who do that sort of piece far better than I could. In fact, when people decide to comment to… Continue Reading
Do you need a break? I do. Come for a walk with me… We’re going to go to Castle Sinclair Girnigoe. If you want to know the history and see some far better photos than I could take, click that… Continue Reading
My life with my husband, Sem, has been nowhere near as dramatic and traumatic as all of our lives have become lately, with the appearance of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19. The internet is full of articles about how to… Continue Reading
The C-word. After Doni’s recent article on the subject of cussing, you might think I mean ‘that’ c-word, but I don’t (yet). These days there’s another big bad c-word in town. You guessed it: coronavirus, or COVID-19 if you prefer.… Continue Reading
You wouldn’t necessarily expect a lot of laughter in a dialysis unit. But where my husband goes for his treatments (a small, four-chair room in the hospital), staff and patients alike become close, with a fair amount of shared banter… Continue Reading
For the past week or more I’ve been saying to myself, “I really must write my next article for ANC.” I fancied writing some kind of Christmas piece but kept falling short in the ideas-department. It’s not that I didn’t… Continue Reading
A few hundred miles south of where we live there is a place called ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ which is at the top of a long, difficult hill. I first became aware of it when hearing winter traffic reports after… Continue Reading
I grew up a couple of hours’ drive away from the Atlantic Ocean. The sea and everything on it and in it never encroached upon my consciousness much, apart from trips “down the shore” as we said in Pennsylvania. I… Continue Reading
Now and then while reading through my blog entries I discover something I think the fine readers at aNewsCafe might find amusing. This is one such entry, a story about an unexpected visit from the aristocracy some years ago, to… Continue Reading
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