. Behind me the house which has a life of its own. Perhaps young children lie abed. One may be reading, the very young sleeping, the father...

Some months before the full year has passed, the family make plans. The plaque for the grave—this will be kept simple. Two river stones and ...

. Winter school holidays—my two great-grandsons are in town to stay with their Daddy. I take them, as I do every year, to the movies. And t...

nightdress . . . slipping into my dreams inside out My brother has a house bus. Each summer he travels around the country working in orchard...