A new post on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...

My writing life is taking off and I’m deep diving into medieval studies… I’m living every minute of it! open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...

Very early (and freezing cold) morning walk along the beach on Mersea Island.

New Substack essay about essential gratitude: open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...

I’m loving our winter walks through the woods - and I love how my husband notices everything!

One of the best lessons I learned on pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres last year was to look for hearts - love - everywhere. It becomes an exhilarating and uplifting treasure hunt. I still do it, constantly. I spotted this one on a driveway a few streets away while out on my morning walk.

Early morning November walks in our local Essex woods quickly become treasure hunts! Shipwrights Wood is ancient woodland that includes dense forest and meadows with an earth bank running through. We marvelled at how many different types of fungi we found.

Writing a first post on a new platform is rather like making a first mark in a new journal - I put it off for an unreasonably long time then hold my breath as I dive in. But I’m here and today is a writing day - I’ve just posted on my blog Ariadne’s Thread: ariadnesthread.net/family/rowena/