Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live? I would relive the moment of the death Of your frail ‘love’. The month, the day, the minute of that breath Obscuring now the hours since you lifted The latch above The door guarding space wherein was sifted Hard memories from the daily … More Sad but not destroyed, I am not that keen on reliving that time. But there ya go …. !

What does it mean to be a kid at heart? You always have to start with terminology in these questions and the most glaring term here is ‘kid’. For, of the many stereotypes Western society (and perhaps more globally now with the primacy of Western values on social media and the long reach of the … More Children, even the ‘child inside’, are the object, and sometimes the victim, of theories not based on finding ways of effectively finding out about them from them. Isn’t it time we changed all that?

Describe a family member. My husband does not want to appear in my blog and my parents died a dozen years ago. Their siblings live a long way away from us and aren’t that interested in keeping in touch. Thus I have to fall back on Daisy, for I will restrict my working definition of … More Can our dog be treated as a family member?

What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in? This is possibly a non-question for me since, being retired, I have no thoughts of a career in anything. My past is littered with the search and pursuit of alternatives but I doubt I would want to pursue them now or their alternatives, even … More How to answer, being retired!

What food would you say is your specialty? The interesting thing about today’s  question is I suppose what is meant by specialty. The word has a kind of professional air to it, so that a working chef would talk of a specialism that they could say they were expert in. It might be a food … More The art of eating.