An Author's Notebook

I'm in a retrospective mood. December is a month for sorting through our photos and thinking about the year that has passed. It's n...

The depressing thing about getting old er is that you'll never be young again. Yes, an obvious point (but bear with me). I look in the ...

At long last, spring is in the air! I can't say I feel the urge to spring-clean, but all this lovely sunshine is raising my energy level...

This past week I thought I had a bad case of PMT. Turns out it was IDT (interior-design tension). I can accomplish most tasks in life with a...

There was an intriguing article in our local newspaper in May last year, which opened with the line: "A man has won an appeal to extend...

People watching:   Karin Willems, co-founder of Zenza About seven years ago the renowned Dutch designer Li Edelkoort helped to kit out ...

Nostalgia is a funny old thing. It is something that I suffer from on a periodic basis. The term nostalgia is defined as a sentimental longi...