Last year the amaryllis I was given never bloomed. So when one arrived this winter I expected the same. I was entirely wrong! There are at least six blooms, jostling each other for space!

I have discovered that everything I do, every movement, every step, every venture has been shrunk down to avoid mishap. The fear of falling has swamped every big dream for my life.

Many people say ‘it’s not fair’, or ‘you’re so young’ or ‘why did God let that happen’. I don’t have an answer to any of those questions, like the ones that rise up when we watch the news or when someone we love gets sick.

Yes and no, can and can’t. Life is never as easy as that to describe. People are never as straightforward. Situations take longer to talk about.

Of the tiny things. Sometimes we are in the middle of a situation that is so huge, so complicated that we don’t see little lights that give us hope within it. Yesterday I was feeling overwhelmed, not an unusual thing for me, and my lovely dog came over and gave my hand a lick. I’m…

Yesterday I finished reading over my recently published book. It had taken longer than expected to arrive so the mistakes I found were still going to be in the set of pre-ordered copies. It was too late to fix them.😩

My husband was playing Geoguessr in Copenhagen (virtually)  two years ago and over his shoulder I spotted a small sign saying ‘The Museum of Happiness’. And so the idea of a book was born. I began to wonder how such a building could exist when there was so much unhappiness in the world. What kind…

I’ve been thinking about what I would miss if my house was burned to the ground or bombed like so many poor people in LA and in Gaza. I couldn’t think of any object, only my precious family and my dog. What about you?

Isaiah 45:3 Amplified Bible (AMP)“I will give you the treasures of darkness [the hoarded treasures] And the hidden riches of secret places, So that you may know that it is I, The LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.,”

When he said ‘do or not do, there is no try’. Sometimes all we have is doing our best and often we do fail. I would say, ‘keep trying and don’t give up’.