LUPUS IN FLIGHT

Ninety minutes from Tokyo, in Ashikaga Flower Park, Tochigi prefecture, the Great Wisteria Tree stands poised in her 160 year old glory. Th...

April now… we are in the middle of Passover. Chag Sameach. For some, this is the second Seder without their family members, who were taken h...

It’s Navroze today, the 21st of March. Spring equinox. That daffodil time of year. A good Iranian creates a beautiful haft-seen table, as de...

I hold my face in my two hands,  and the rest of me falls apart. So I hold my feet in my two hands,  and now I am on the floor. Oh not this ...

I want to be impressive  and say I met a mountain once, or a pyramid, or the desert - but the truth is the sea scares me  and the only lands...

‘ New Year met me somewhat sad, Old year leaves me tired’ - Christina Rossetti Bird on a wire. Bird on a tree. I see you. Do you see me? Bli...

Have you heard of the Buddhist practise called Tonglen? It's a bodhicitta meditation of taking in dark energy, difficulty or despair and...

Like Leila Chatti, I remember the 6pm brewing of tea for Dad, for me,  to get through the long winter  evening  that stretched ahead into an...

Do you recall two movies starring Kate Winslet titled 'Hideous Kinky' and 'Kinky Boots'? The first was based on a memoir by ...

Gaza is a door into two worlds -  one that keeps us alive, and one that kills us. We die, either way, at the door. Death is a door we knock ...