Tag Archives: travel

A Lingering Look at Windows: Muted Light

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

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 | 55 Comments

Christmas Storms, Thunder for New Year’s Eve and Thank You Classic FM!

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Well here we are, it’s 2014 and I can hardly believe it! How are you all my dear friends? I do hope you all had a truly wonderful Christmas and that you saw the New Year in with style? We … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood Memories, Family Life | Tagged America, Childhood memories, Christmas, Family Life, Happy New Year, Musings, My California, New Year's Eve, Storms, travel | 81 Comments

Cornwall, ‘Rebecca’ and a Homecoming

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Well, Thanksgiving has been and gone (I hope you all had a good one!), my son Nicky celebrated his birthday in style and we spent a wonderful weekend with some very special people at their lovely home in Cornwall. To my … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reading, Current Affairs, Family Life, Musings, My California, Photos, Travel | Tagged Author, Books and Reading, British Isles, Cornwall, Current Affairs, Daphne Du Maurier, Family Life, Fowey, Italian Job, Looe, Marriage, Movies, Musings, My California, travel, West Country, Withnail & I, writing | 80 Comments

A Little Boy’s Hand in Mine

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Once upon a time, many years ago, a three-year old boy not long to be four put his little hand into his mother’s and smiled up at her. She smiled back with reassurance and promised him that she would keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood Memories, Family Life, Mothers & Sons, My California, Writing | Tagged America, beach, Childhood memories, Children, England, Family Life, Flight of the Navigator, Glendale, Grandparents, Growing Up, Halloween, Happy Birthday, joy, Los Angeles, love, mother's hand, Mothers & Sons, My California, Reminiscing, Sherri Matthews, travel, writing | 38 Comments

Project O – In My Humble Opinion

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Let me introduce you to the enigmatic Opinionated Man from Harsh Reality. We have a few things in common; one is that we both started our blogs in January of this year. The other is that he has had over … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Current Affairs, Guest Blogs | Tagged America, Children, Country of origin, England, Freedom, Greek Orthodox, Guest Blog, Jesus, Leukeamia, mothers, Opinions, Project O, Respect, Salvation, Self-esteem, Social Issues, travel, Western Culture | 36 Comments

My Cats & My Robin Enjoyed the Sunshine – How About You?

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

It is funny how things change in life. From the age of ten, I grew up in a village in rural Suffolk and so spent many-a-day running across fields, walking in the nearby woods, climbing trees and such. Of course, … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds of a Feather, CATalogue, Family Life, Garden Snippets, Photos, Suffolk Tales, Sweet Robin | Tagged Britain, cat photos, cats, Central Coast California, Childhood memories, English Robins, Family Life, Gardening, Home, Homesick, moving house, rain, Robin photos, Sunshine, travel | 16 Comments

Baby, I’m Back!

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Well, hello again dear readers! I have returned from my journey across that vast Atlantic sea, safe and sound, climbed back out of a sleepless void commonly known as ‘jet lag’ so that I am now managing to sleep 4 hours straight (yes, … Continue reading →

Posted in Family Life, Friendship, My California, Photos, Uncategorized | Tagged Bittersweet Memories, Central Coast California, Dancing, Family Life, Friendship, Home, joy, laughter, Los Angeles, loss, pain, Photos of California, San Luis Obispo, travel | 10 Comments

Our Spooky Loft, A Queen Wasp & it’s Hasta La Vista, Baby!

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

I don’t like going into our loft at the best of times for two very good reasons: For one thing, last summer, when I had to go up there for something (always looking for ‘something’), just as I poked my head … Continue reading →

Posted in Family Life, My California, Uncategorized | Tagged attic, California, cats, Hasta La Vista, husbands, loft, spooky movies, travel, Vacation, wasps | 15 Comments

Spring Is Sprung & My Hummingbird Tale

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Spring is sprung The grass is rizz… I wonder where the birdies is? Every spring time I think of this little poem; it takes me right back to when I was nineteen and working at the Post Office in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Family Life, Garden Snippets, My California, Sweet Robin | Tagged California, divorce, England, English Garden, English Robin, Family Life, hope, Hummingbirds, San Diego, Spring, travel | 30 Comments

My California – It’s Complicated

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

I started this blog to mark my new life as a new writer. I know I’m not keeping to the ‘rules’ by sticking to one subject and perhaps this blog will end up being several blogs in one. I have … Continue reading →