This is a great time of year for gathering with friends and exchanging stories. Start collecting ideas for next year's writing. Focus on memories, weather, colours, sounds and scents. Find a box [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. I'm spending the day remembering a wonderful visit to the United States and Canada in 2014. This is a photo of the American Falls near [...]

This is a good time to focus on your writing. Make a list of the projects you would like to complete. Create an action plan to finish one of them. Break the [...]

As many people will know, The Almonry is now closed for two years for major repairs, particularly to the roof. They are therefore in need of money! I am running a Creative [...]

This is a good time of year to review progress so far - and to harvest ideas for future projects. If you don't already do so, keep an 'ideas box' in which [...]

Lammas/Lughnasa is a celebration of the harvest and an opportunity to review how far we have come around the wheel of the year. The corn and barley are harvested. Many of us [...]

Happy Summer Solstice/Litha (depending on where you are in the world!) In parts of the UK it has been swelteringly hot - not always conducive to sitting at a desk. However, it's [...]