Ever since I fell in love with Recoleta Cemetery I’ve wanted to go to Père Lachaise in Paris and last Sunday afternoon I got my chance: a tantalising hour and […]
Ever since I fell in love with Recoleta Cemetery I’ve wanted to go to Père Lachaise in Paris and last Sunday afternoon I got my chance: a tantalising hour and […]
I dream of being up to date, but I have 4,096 emails lurking in my inbox and seven ‘to do’ lists in my handbag at the time of writing, to […]
“Is it good enough?” The nagging question is quick to surface. I came home from Chacarita Cemetery yesterday with some 50 photos of reflections, but there wasn’t one that made […]
I knew I had to go to Recoleta Cemetery this afternoon. Sometimes that happens – I’m in the middle of something when it jumps into my head to go there […]
For more than a year now, I’ve been reading Anam Cara by Irish poet and scholar John O’Donohue. Now that’s slow even for me, but it is almost unbearably beautiful […]
I had written it in my diary weeks ago: ‘Día de los Muertos, Flores’ for All Souls’ Day on 2 November. I woke early, excited, and the sun was shining, […]
I love the evocative trio of Halloween (yesterday), All Saints’ Day (today) and All Souls’ Day (tomorrow). But that should come as no surprise from someone who’s just set up […]
Yesterday morning, Facebook brought word that Gabrielle Roth, founder of the 5Rhythms® movement-meditation practice, had died. The 5Rhythms takes you through Flowing, Staccato, Chaos and Lyrical into Stillness, each representing […]
A month or so before my trip to England, I was fortunate to be granted permission to take photos at Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires. Whereas the tombs of Recoleta […]
Buenos Aires seems like another world now that I am immersed in my London life for a few months, staying with the wonderful Elspeth, getting the number 7 bus to […]
I was born in Montreal in 1967, grew up in England and live between London and Buenos Aires. Like many, I came to Buenos Aires to dance tango and fell under the spell of this city where strangers talk to you, tango music seeps on to the streets and the ornate crumbling buildings speak of grander times. I love writing and crafting words – I've worked as a sub-editor for more than 20 years – and taking photographs.