LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC

Last weekend we rented 4 DVDs from the local video store - just for a change from Netflix which had been throwing up far too much garbage of...

Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of ...

Yesterday I visited the surgeon's office - the surgeon who performed my lumpectomy "procedure" on 27th March. The appointm...

An interesting piece by Clara Wiggins appeared on the BBC website last week: Doctors are finding one way that sugar can benefit your health...

A question posed at Quora's website the other day became fodder for this post. The question: What is the single most important thing ...

If ever I have serious doubts about the validity of astrology, at its core, I remember my personal experiences when outer planetary transit...

"2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change." ...

A quickie post just to celebrate finishing the "procedure" I underwent yesterday, 27 March. The whole event did actually take f...

“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures In spite of current concern...

For any Netflix viewers who have grown jaded from watching too many police procedurals, detectives chasing serial killers, etc etc, yet find...

While I wait, and try not to worry, and imagine, and obsess, here's something from the husband's huge collection of vintage photogra...

This post will stand until the weekend. I shall be otherwise engaged. Currently I have something serious on my plate - some surgery. More ...

Welcoming Spring with, appropriately enough, "The Coming of Spring" by Erté An archived post on Erté is HERE. “In olden t...

And this: And...

Not a day passes when I don't read at least a handful of questions at Quora relating to narcissism. For example : Are relationships wi...

I've been a little distracted and otherwise engaged for a few days so, instead of my usual arty farty dish with a side order of astrolog...

Easter, and the run up to it, brings to mind a rhyme I used to repeat, long ago and far way near the north-eastern coast of England: Tid, ...