by Susie | Apr 18, 2018 | Imaginations and inter-blogging, In Death, Love poems, Memories, Multiple myeloma, Poetry, The Box of Secrets, Uncategorized
When I don’t mention your name it wishes to slip through my lips it rolls around in my mouth it hinders my speech you are not a memory lost you are with me always yearning to escape, please can I mention your name? A new guest for tea like old school friends...
by Susie | Dec 31, 2017 | Articles., Memories, Open Letters, Places To Visit, Uncategorized
What a Year This Has Been! As the closing of 2017 is upon us I look back over this very exciting and special year. The year when I reach the fabulous age of seventy, I can hardly believe that I have made it to this senior age! When I was young seventy was considered...
by Susie | Jul 14, 2017 | Food, Memories, Places To Visit, Travel, Uncategorized
Having already been to the United Arab Emirates in April for a Desert Reunion and having the most super time, staying at the Al Ain Hilton and meeting-up again with old friends, travelling with my youngest Son Jo and reliving the time we spent  there in this desert...
by Susie | May 12, 2017 | Memories, Places To Visit, Poems of Places, Travel, Uncategorized
Desert Days. To walk on desert sands, to feel the warmth of the rust coloured grains between your toes, the magic of this gentle land will steal your heart to return once more… this land will embrace you, it will fill your eyes with wondrous visions, this torpid...
by Susie | May 10, 2017 | Memories, Places To Visit, Travel, Uncategorized
“No man can live this life and emerge unchanged, he will carry however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return, weak or insistent  according to his nature. For this cruel land can...
by Susie | Jan 13, 2017 | Memories, Places To Visit, Travel, Uncategorized
The months fly by or so it seems these days. It can hardly be almost three years since the last desert reunion and my poem written of this time, of our meeting in London, but it is. This coming April I plan to return to the desert once again back to the garden city of...
