DAY ONE FRIDAY A new family has arrived at DECIEP, Felista Kibe’s wonderful openhearted rescue and refuge home for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children in Waithake, Nairobi. Their story is as common in Kenya as typhoid in the rainy season.  Their mother died of AIDS and their father abandoned them. They were helped by a...Read More

A harvest in Tuscany. What images does that conjure? Undulating hills in autumnal sunshine?  Happy harvesters with floppy hats and brown faced smiles plucking warm fruit in scented air between laughter filled breaks for alfresco pasta and red wine? Yup. That’s more or less what I imagined too when I offered to help my friend...Read More

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in...Read More

Diario d’un Cuore Spezzato (Diary of a Broken Heart) I have never been to Tuscany. Not ‘real’ Tuscany. But then I have never had my heart broken either. So I have run away, from everyone and everywhere I know,   to the top of a hill in the middle of nowhere. If you can call the...Read More

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in...Read More