1. Face Your Demons I’ve been having a tough time coming up with a topic to blog about this week. My informal weekly deadline of Wednesday has passed and, as I write, I’m not certain if or how this post will come to be. After sharing my sense of writer’s block with the lovely community […]
A Nation with a Heart We have an old proverb here in Wales, “cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon”. That is, “a nation without a language is a nation without a heart”. And Wales is a nation that almost lost its language. In 1847, Wales was in a state of social unrest. That unrest had […]
Shadowy spectre-like figures peeking into the gaps in curtains, conspiring to steal my sister and me away in the night. Those figures were recurring visitors in some of my most vivid childhood nightmares. They had terrified little me. I’d deduced that the only way to protect my family was to go to extra efforts to […]