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Alas, I live in a flat in the suburbs, and so I don't have a backyard, much less a picture of one. Here's a picture of the cat I used...

Few summers ago, small regional village

Just toured Mt. Etna in Sicily with the family. I've seen Aranal in Costa Rica and an active volcano in Iceland before, so this isn't my...

Here's one of my favourite short Chinese poems (though I hated studying it in school). It's grown on me over the years. By the Tang...

I remember taking this poem as a synopsis for a writing assignment once, it's Raymond Carver. I'm not avid reader of poetry but most of...

Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like...

The first stanza of the First Canto of The Lady of the Lake (1883) written by Sir Walter Scott. Harp of the North! that mouldering long...

A local (actually regional) song saying sth like: Oh where are you night queens, do you wonder through the town somewhere? It's lyrics...

I recently had to get new (faster) internet and with it I got few TV channels even though I don't watch much TV except online. In one of...

Dryer is probably for people who have a lot of clothes, there was one when I was living abroad for few years and I had some good and...

In summer it takes less time I think. Agree about the bed linen, perhaps it can fit if it's the only thing getting dried, or it can be...

I have something like this:

In my early twenties I had a tour guiding summer job and Rome was one of the stops, didn't go to Italy ever since. I had to learn the...

My first novel was released on March 25. The second is set for release in July 2026. "Traditional publishing" is a popular misnomer for...

Yeah they have a calming effect. I like the "she makes the sound, the sound the sea makes" wordplay in Dissolve me, and both the video...