I'm slowly creeping back towards my real work. I have greeted the light at the end of the writing tunnel and while I still have some od...

Virginia Woolf once said: A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction . I'm not sure I agree with that but...

Ironing has never been my favourite activity. For many years, there has always been washing waiting to be ironed in my home. Sometimes I...

During the week as I was ironing I came across a pillow case that was frayed and very thin in a few places. It came in a set of a fitted sh...

… it has become too easy in our time to assume that childrearing, housekeeping, and caregiving, along with all the varieties of manual work...

Well, after giving myself a week to do it, I finally got to the pantry cleaning yesterday. I usually leave things like that to the last min...

Here is Jamie with his little red Hamburg overnight bag.  He wanted to know why Santa left those presents at our place.  We have a sur...

One of the best things, for me, about being a wife-mother-grandmother who cooks is providing good food for the people I love. It's not ...