Having a journaling practice is essential to my well-being. When I am feeling out of balance sitting down with pen and paper to sift through thoughts and feelings always restores me. 

The wild mint blows in the breeze as I sit on the steps of an abandoned stone house at the end of a street where my great-grandparents lived.

I’ve just come home with market fresh porcini mushrooms to prepare for dinner. I’m making tagliatelle ai funghi porcini, a favorite and easy seasonal dish to make.

I am a deskless writer...

A list of simple pleasures that, for me, make the ordinary extraordinary…

Do you love notebooks? I have a thing for notebooks. I am never without paper and pencil…

The most sensual of all cities I’ve travelled to, Venice

I’m wearing my husband’s old flannel shirt. The brushed cotton in deep olive-green and black squares is soft and loose on my body. I found it cleaning out the closet today… Maybe I’m just looking for the familiar...