Author Archives: Sherri Matthews

About Sherri Matthews

Sherri has been writing full time since 2011. Currently working on her memoir, 'Stranger in a White Dress', she has been published in a variety of national magazines, websites and three anthologies. Sherri raised her three, now adult children, in California for twenty years and today, lives in England’s West Country with her hubby, Aspie youngest, two cats, a grumpy bunny and a family of Chinese Button Quails. She keeps out of mischief blogging, gardening, walking by the sea and snapping endless photographs. Her garden robin muse vists regularly.

Friends Fun And Photos: #BloggersBash2017

Posted on June 20, 2017

Last year I called it Big, Bright And Beautiful. And it was. The Blogger’s Bash 2016 was all of those things. So what do I call it this year? I could call it the ‘International Blogger’s Conference’ as displayed in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bloggers Bash | Tagged #BloggersBash2017, Annual Bloggers Bash & Awards 2017, Blogging, Blogs, Fellow Bloggers, Friendship | 130 Comments

All Change At The Summerhouse

Posted on June 7, 2017

Hello dear friends, how I miss you. My absence breeds a growing sense of isolation from my blogging community, the Summerhouse needs the laughter of friends. I wonder what you are up to, how things are going, what’s your latest … Continue reading →

Posted in Asperger's Syndrome, Blogging, Nature & Wildlife | Tagged #BloggersBash, Asperger's Syndrome, Blogging, cats, English Bluebell Woods, Father's Day, Grief, London, Memoir Writing, Owls, The Woodland Trust, Weekly Photo Challenge | 129 Comments

Spring Forward

Posted on March 23, 2017

Hello again dear friends! Cobwebs linger in the corners of the Summerhouse, my short, more frequent posts haven’t materialised – yet – but spring has sprung, I am writing and my daffodils are blooming ~ A getaway to the countryside … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Publication, Cats, Nature & Wildlife | Tagged Book Publication, cats, English Garden, English Spring Countryside, Howard's House Hotel, Lady By The River, Mother's Day, Narcissus Daffodils, Perseverance, UFO's, Weekly Photo Challenge, writing | 173 Comments

Of Blogging Blues And Otters

Posted on February 15, 2017

Today, the view from the Summerhouse is grey and wet. Yet I am heartened at signs of spring bulbs rising from winter’s slumber with fresh, green shoots. Soon, the view will be awash with colour. As I work on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Nature & Wildlife, Poetry | Tagged Blogging, Friendship, Japanese Poetry, Memoir, Nature & Wildlife, Photos of Otters, Sarah Potter, Spring, Tamar Otter & Wildlife Centre, Weekly Photo Challenge, writing | 127 Comments

In The Raw

Posted on January 13, 2017

As the sun slowly set on 2016, I watched from a beach on the Dorset coastline, and I thought of my dad. Today, writing my first post of a new year, I think of all that’s happened since I wrote … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Family Memoirs, Guest Blogs, Writing | Tagged Blogging, Champagne, Dad, Family Memoirs, Fourth Blogging Anniversary, Guest Posts, Memoir Writing, New Year, Raw Literature, thank you, writing | 127 Comments

Christmas Present

Posted on December 16, 2016

It doesn’t seem possible that Christmas is just over a week away, a New Year chasing its heels. So much has changed, not least of all the weather. The last couple of weeks in southern England have been unseasonably mild, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reading, Christmas, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged A Christmas Carol, Anticipation, Books & Reading, California, City of Bath, Debut Authors, Dunster By Candlelight, Friendship, Garden Challenge, Monday Walks, Victorian Christmas, Weekly Photo Challenge | 131 Comments

December’s Guest Storyteller, Sherri Matthews

Posted on December 3, 2016

Originally posted on Sarah Potter Writes:
Sherri has been writing full-time since 2011. Currently working on her memoir, Stranger in a White Dress, she has been published in a variety of national magazines and two anthologies. Sherri raised her three,…

Posted in Guest Blogs, Uncategorized | Tagged Christmas, Flash fiction, Guest Post, story telling | 34 Comments

An Italian Journey: Writing And Healing

Posted on November 29, 2016

September arrived and with it, any thoughts of writing vanished. My birthday; a long-awaited holiday. Both beckoned. But somewhere in the space between early spring and autumn’s first flush, everything blurred into one big smudge of I can’t face it. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writing | Tagged Apolypoprotein A-1 Milan, Grief, Italian Journey, Italy, J W Goethe, Lake Garda, Limone, Malcesine, postaday, travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, writing | 154 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on November 24, 2016

From across the Shining Sea, I wish my dear American family and friends a Peaceful and Happy Thanksgiving.

Posted in Nature & Wildlife, Thanksgiving | Tagged America, English Garden, Peace, Thanksgiving | 31 Comments

Lest We Forget

Posted on November 11, 2016

Escaping the clamour filling news headlines and social media lately, I stood alone in my living room this morning at eleven o’clock to observe two minute’s silence. With the television on, as Big Ben chimed, cameras caught moments throughout the … Continue reading →