Over the Sea to Glasgow

I find I often start my posts very late at night. I am not convinced that this is an advantage - probably my thoughts are fuzzy and ramble m...

For hundreds of years in the highlands and islands of Scotland, after weaving a piece of cloth, the women would get together to full the clo...

Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm Years ago I read a book on the 1st World War published by the Imperial War Museum and in it was a chapter ...

This past weekend, my dear friend Sarah, her husband Erik and their children Tommy and Mairi came to visit us. They came on Friday night and...

A year or so back we were reading the Book of Mormon as a family - and one of us read from a facsimile edition. Occasionally words and whole...

I believe I have counted right, and there are sixteen weeks left until September 1st. I thought, also, that spring was the perfect time to b...

Yesterday was May 1st. May Day. Heather, Katie and I celebrated it at our friends the Mason's beautiful house. On their property they ha...