There were four of us who journeyed across the Equator, plus those left behind and some who insisted on remaining in the memory,...

“Grandfather, I’m curious about the annual train journeys my great Uncle Vincent took. Apparently every Christmas he would accompany the...

As a young child I was always out on my trike socialising! We lived in a village long associated with mums family, on the edge of the New...

The sun was out for free and so too was Lou! At last the Emperor had finally given barely a nod. A year passed. Lou and Evelyn cuddled...

Dad was a prisoner of war in the 1940’s for several years in Asia. Married for a week and then gone for nearly five years!  Soldiers...

Her garden symmetric and bold. Partnering oft in Autumn cold. Sentinal oaks  on bound-a-ry, with leafy frocks of acorns; free. Partnering...

The river calls as we unhitch our sturdy bikes, clean from yesterday’s rain. Hats and gloves no impediment to feasts of flax and flurry...

“My Dear Lew. I write for the last time this year. So much happening these days.” Thanks Red Cross: one letter en route cross embattled...

She took from the shelf love letters staring back over her shoulder witnessed a tumbling of words memories collapsing, no longer upright...

The lights go out. The power company has fingered the switches. We don’t care and go out for lunch, south down the road. The cars going...

In the distance long- necked geese call  inside their group, gathering the scents of home, answering harmoniously. Do we stay or do we...

Crafted basket partners writer’s feet beside large window, its body a criss-cross  of open tanned strips  of dried flax   lodged in firm...

Yes, that was the day. I can’t remember which one. We were to leave the following morning. Breakfast at 6 a.m., before travelling by...

As we approached the verandah he signalled to his wife and three children, gently  thrusting out his arm in front of his family to...

A hedge of unruly edge defines a level of garden above man- grove’s coupled with sun drenched water that comes and goes. Towards the...

Again, she asks him a searching question as he stares at the floor, looking for a loose shoelace, avoiding her smart, horizon-driven eye....

A silent messenger came today slinking through the rustic corners of a mind -preferring playfulness. The slender figure transparently...

The black locust squawked, as I set my sights aloft tipping my buttery beak at family, taking flight beyond their perches, from inside...

Winter in Japan is crisp dry and very cold. We’d shower together after exercising, under jets of stinging iciness. One tap for all as we...

Your letter: an oasis to unwilling wanderer. I sink into my bunk and soak-up contents away from prying eyes. Later I lie on cool grassy...