Imagination Lane

  Nelson Mandela has long been my hero.
In celebration of what would be his 100th birthday, I am re-posting a piece I'd previously written...
For eighteen years, Prisoner 46664 was locked up each night in a tiny cell that measured five square metres. The cell contained a bowl, a spoon, a plate and a bucket, and while there was a blanket, the only bed was a thin straw mat for the floor....

     I've loved books since I was gifted my first one by a family friend on my tenth birthday. Books had played little role in my life until then. They were absent from our postwar Belfast bungalow, my parents not being readers. There were books at ...

Mike and I just got back from a quick road trip that let us spend a couple of days in Nevada, and a few more in California. The main goal was to see Death Valley -which is indescribably beautiful and simply stunning- but as a lover of topography, almost...

As my husband and I made our way home after a trip to Chilliwack last week, we spotted a dazzling field of tulips field off to our right. Mike turned in automatically, knowing this was our kind of stop and was surprised when I objected in a most uncharacteristic...