Hello, This month we're thinking about simple pleasures. Over the last eighteen months, we've probably all...
Celebrating simple pleasures
Now that April’s here
Hello, We hope everyone is keeping safe and well and send a warm welcome to our new followers. Here's our monthly selection of small steps for living life well, even as we're all enduring this strange time together. We've collected some cheering ideas, links and images which we hope you will enjoy. Something to…
Staircase 9 17’s October bookshelf
Our book recommendation for October is The Real Jane Austen: A life in small things, by Paula Byrne. Divided into chapters dealing with different items such as 'The East Indian Shawl', 'The Topaz Crosses', and 'The Box of Letters', it is a fascinating, readable and original exploration of the life of Jane Austen and the…
A twenty-second hug for Mother’s Day
Dear Claire, I listened to an interesting podcast the other day on NPR, our national public radio station here in the US. It was an interview with twin sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski, whose new book Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (or in the UK, Burnout: The Secret to Solving the Stress Cycle)…
