We all worked with our hands, we just had different tools and worked on different materials, be it fabric, leather, or human tissue. Our basic tools, however, were a needle and thread. When I was growing up in Scotland, I remember studying my dad as he worked at his tailor’s bench. In the yellow light he bent over the fabric, lips pursed in concentration, dividing the tweed with huge shears. Around his neck was his measuring tape, by his…
When the rope was lowered allowing us to enter the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit we were each handed a red rose and a boarding pass for the vessel, bearing a passenger’s name. Our tickets were for April 15th 2012, exactly 100 years from the day the doomed behemoth plunged two and a half miles down through the frigid North Atlantic waters to the ocean floor. The name on my boarding pass was Mrs. Frederick Quick (Jane Richards), a 33-year-old…
March 18th 2012 is Mothering Sunday in the UK. Mother’s Day across the pond falls on a different day than in the US. This was a bone of contention between my mother and me, for I was always getting it wrong. It seemed no matter how hard I tried, I either missed it or was late. The barrage of TV advertisements, newspaper ads and Hallmark store banners in the States, all told me, in clamant tones, that Mother’s day was the second Sunday in…
Dr. Silver is a physician, an award-winning writer and an editor whose latest book is You Can Heal Yourself (St. Martin’s Press). She is Chief Editor of Books at Harvard Health Publications and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. She has appeared on the Dr. Oz Show, Today Show, CBS Early Show, ABC News Now, AARP Radio and NPR. Her work has been featured in and other newspapers and magazines. Diane: You are the founder and…
Melanie Milburne is a romance writer who grew up on the outskirts of Sydney Australia, and currently lives in Hobart, Tasmania. When she was 17, Melanie read her first Mills & Boon romance novel and vowed to be a romance reader for life. She and her husband, a surgeon, moved to Scotland so that he could continue his studies in surgery. They have two sons, both born in Sydney. In 2003, she became the first Australian author in ten years to…
The artist Peter Foyle originates from Dorset in the South of England. He graduated from St Martins College of Art and Design, London in 1986, and was a finalist that year in the prestigious Reader’s Digest Young Illustrator’s Award. After graduating, he worked as a freelance artist and illustrator. Peter has painted since his early schooldays. He and his wife opened the Framework Gallery in Troon in 1990. In 2003 one of his paintings was…