Myopic Bookworm's Blog

Quite by chance I plucked Daphne Hampson's After Christianity from the shelf, and it has proved to be one of those books which makes y...

Imperceptibly, something has changed. I entered the New Year of 2009 with the feeling that I had lost my grip on faith, and this feeling gr...

I have just discovered that the American Zen teacher Robert Aitken died a couple of days ago. I was slightly surprised to find that I don...

Sho' Auntie Di! Some of Tiny Bookworm's tuneless singing can be a bit baffling. I am used to hearing fragments of nursery rhymes, b...

Music occasionally makes me cry. While I was driving to work this morning, the radio launched into "Scene and Waltz of the Snowflakes...

Autumn arrived on Friday. It was a nice day, and the trees are still green; but there was just something about the angle of the sunlight sl...

Thursday was marked by one of my best moments since the day we were first sent home with a small pink alien. The weather was my favourite k...