Walk With Me
or bike or horse ride – with me along this delightful island of Jersey(c) Sherri Matthews 2015
This Is Lockdown
The Congress of Rough Writers Flash Fiction Anthology Vol I
Congress of Rough Writers Awards
Lady By The River: Stories of Perseverance
Heart Whispers: A Poetry Anthology
Slices of Life: An Anthology of True Stories
The Lighthouse Award
Wonderful You!
Tag Archives: California
True Crime, Freesias and a Happy Easter
My conversations with my dad are not what most daughters have with their fathers. For one thing, they are held over the telephone most Sundays when he calls me from home prison. For another, our conversations aren’t exactly run-of-the-mill. Our … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Memories, Family Life, My California, My Dad's Alcoholic Prison
Tagged Alcoholism, California, Childhood memories, Dogs, Easter, Family Life, Freesias, Jesus, Laci Peterson, prison, True Crime
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Threshold of a New Beginning
On the threshold of a new beginning, a point of entering. This week, over at the Weekly Photo Challenge, Krista asks us to share a photo that captures that moment ‘just before a new beginning — that split-second moment in … Continue reading
The Best Conversations Are In Cars
Since sharing in my last post about all the different writing voices screaming in my head, I’ve managed to quieten down a few of them, although not enough to feel too smug. Not smug at all in fact. Still, my … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Memories, Family Life, Memoir, My California
Tagged California, Cars, Childhood memories, Family Life, Memoir, School, School Children, writing
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WPC: Inside My Hope-Filled English Garden
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge theme is ‘Inside’. This is my interpretation. Here’s hoping. Walking around my garden today, I can’t help thinking how different things are compared to last year when we were in the grip of a long, … Continue reading
The Luck of the Irish and My Californian Earthquake
Today is St Patrick’s Day, as if you didn’t know. You would think that since I am a quarter Irish thanks to my paternal grandmother, I would be leaping about all over the place to the strains of Riverdance (and … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition is British High Tea in California
This week’s theme for the Weekly Photo Challenge is Juxtaposition. Juxtaposition is defined in the Collins English Dictionary in this way: ‘The juxtaposition of two contrasting objects, images, or ideas is the fact that they are placed together or described … Continue reading
Posted in My California, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged America, California, England, Friendship, Juxtaposition, Pacific Coast Highway, postaday, Tea, Weekly Photo Challenge
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The Taste of Words – Asperger’s Syndrome and Synaesthesia
The taste of LA on a Disneyland morning. It is the taste of hot coffee, Winchell’s donuts and egg and bacon breakfast sandwiches. This is what was brought to Aspie Daughter’s mind as we chatted one day about the times … Continue reading
WPC: Family
A little late in the day (at least for my fellow same-time-zone bloggers) to start my new regime but here I begin with this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge theme which is ‘Family’. This gives a very broad scope for interpretation … Continue reading
A Lingering Look at Windows: Muted Light
This has been a different and unusual week for me in many ways. So many thoughts swirl about my head at the moment, full of the twists and turns of every day living and the way life can turn on … Continue reading
Posted in A Lingering Look at Windows, Photos, Travel
Tagged A Lingering Look at Windows, California, Foreign travel, France, Light, Memories, photo, photograph of a window, travel, Windows
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A View From My Summerhouse 