Ocean

 I'm running on sleep borrowed from another era. My head stubbornly refuses to embrace the new normal of European time. Sleep before ...

A Sunday in the park. That's what I want. But, Lazienki -- Warsaw's finest (in my mind, Europe's finest) public green space, is...

Can I cheat today, please? A day of few words?  You'll understand, I know you will. My reasons: I couldn't sleep last night. Tossed...

I have heard that when you return to your childhood home as an adult, a part of you slips right into a pattern of thought and feeling that ...

The French do it. Germans do it. Heck, even the Hungarians do it. Certainly the Poles do it: on a cold bleak day in February, they stuff th...

Let me explain the trip that begins for me today. Because it's not one of my usual "I just want so much to travel!" events. T...

It was crowded in bed last night: there were the two of us, then the new bed for Isis (to get him used to it), then quite separately -- Isi...

In an effort to contain Isis at night, I bought him a very soft little cat bed. It arrived today as Ed was napping upstairs with Isis tight...