Have you ever started something important, something you look forward to and anticipate?
You see it clearly in your mind’s eye, when suddenly everything changes in an instant and all your plans turn u...
Sometimes, I stumble into the inner world of a complete stranger by accident, a person who brings new and lyrical sounds to the deeply hidden strings of my soul.
They respond in a melodious and gentl...
What is the most beautiful and unusual date you ever had? The date you would remember for ever?
“I want to show you Bermuda from the ocean’s point of view,” Bill told me when we met for our first date...
When I was a little girl and lived in Siberia with its enormous wilderness, I thought that the forest was a part of my house.
It was always kind and friendly to me, often hiding me under its trees fro...
Do we meet people at random? Is it pure chance or fate?
I often ask myself this question: why did I meet this particular person? Sometimes, it is the one who helped or even saved me, who said just the...
Have you ever had some small event suddenly open a secret gateway in your soul for the flow of deep and hidden memories?
It happened to me a few days ago. After dinner in a stylish restaurant in the s...
“How would I look in this photo with this background of the sunset?”
I thought about this seriously as I held up my iPhone, standing on a cliff soaring majestically above the calm lake.
At this mome...
How do I know what true love is? This morning we received the results of my annual scan from the doctor.
My husband jumped out on to the sunny porch of our summer home in Minnesota, high above a calm ...
Yellow bundles of bananas, tight blue plums, bunches of transparent green grapes, deep red apples, soft and curvy pears, succulent yellow mangoes … I glanced over the rows of neatly laid fruits brough...
What is it that I love about the West End of Bermuda? Perhaps it is the feeling that it is a bit closer to the old Bermuda that I see in paintings and faded photographs.
When I ride my bicycle from M...
