I'm a huge fan of Billy Wilder, the movie writer and director who made such classics as Sunset Blvd, Stalag 17, and Some Like It Hot. I only recently saw a photo of his headstone, and I love it! As...

My son Dante graduated from Montessori (pre-school) at the end of June. His teacher Mary gave us a couple of photos of him. In the first one he's dressed in his lovely, sweet graduation garb,...

I can't recall whether or not I've posted this before. I *think* I have, but I'm not 100%, so I figured I'd err on the side of caution. My apologies if I'm wrong and if some of you are feeling a...

The Shans head off on holiday today. We were seriously tempted to hit for Vampire Mountain -- in an attempt to roll with the times, Vancha March was charged by the other Vampire Princes with...

Just TWO WEEKS to go until my event at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Thursday 22nd August at 5.30pm! As I've said before, this will probably be my only public appearance of 2019, so miss me at...

I mentioned Bec in yesterday's post about the Lake Of Souls, so this seems like a good time to share a scintillating fan drawing of her by an artist called Kate. I think Kate nicely captured Bec's...