She is seductive, alluring, and she should never be denied self-belief and pride in her own beauty. Beauty belongs to everyone and yet to no one. Love is plenty and can be admired. Love creates the silence of tranquility, the noise of happiness, and the whispers of care. Women are…

You have spent ages over a story you are excited to share. CLICK, you share it on your social media, and then you receive that dumb message from some group (Nazi) admin moderator who reminds you of the rules. Have you been caught out? You naughty writer. No Self Promotion…

Chit chatting in Alberca, nr. Salamanca in Spain. Home is where my heart is. but try telling that to my feet which are getting itchy. ‘ITCHY FEET’ an idiom that means you are eager to go somewhere. It has been a while since I last traveled, so when an opportunity recently was presented to me to spend a week helping Spanish students improve their…

Listen to this article in audio. Please go to my blog for audio. Laurenstaton.com. After months on lockdown and restricted gatherings, there is a social need to blow away the cobwebs in your brain, a need I have found frustrating to the point of going Ga-Ga. We all need to…

It starts innocently with an institution, a grouping together of human beings. We look for leadership and allow power to corrupt. We become members — friends — comrades — a team — a nation. Then we build a wall, a border. a restricted line. For thousands of years, we existed in small groups, 150 people. Then we wanted cities. From within the city walls, we learned about the need to protect…

I have searched for a memory — Moontox is calling. She talks of two moons in a sky that is dawning. I wake and remember, what comes after grey, the skies have been darker than usual this day. The planet was screaming words polluting on tongues, no longer was breathing…

French morning sunrise, clutching a white china cup of boiled lemon water, I perch sleepily on the step, overlooking my purple garden. The soft hum of bees in the background of nature chanting their rhythm. Now I am lost in the aroma of lavender, closing my eyes, the sun is…

I love a great salad, don’t you? especially now we have all become so creative, so different from the salads my mother used to serve up. A limp piece of lettuce, some sliced tomato, and cucumber, if we were lucky there would also be half a boiled egg. Oh my…

How clued up are you on your fabrics.? Can you tell your 100% cottons from your polyesters? What is natural and what is man-made? You may be surprised to know that cotton manufactured in today’s modern industry is not as natural as you would think. The truth is that more chemicals are now used to produce cotton than any other crop in the world. To grow cotton, we use about 3% of farmland yet…