Christmas in Wales

One of my goals in life has always been to live in a book, or to become one . This…

Learning Welsh

“Somehow, the language became intelligible not by my ability to speak it, but by their…

Daily Life (in Wales)

These are extracts from letters to our family and friends back home and were written in the first year (of five) of our…

Language, Starships, Footnotes & Wales

“The language […] gives the Cymro Cymraeg, the Welsh-speaking Welshman, membership of a…

The Year in Wales: Autumn

These are extracts from letters to our family and friends back home and were written in the first year (of five)…

One Spring Morning:

But of course having things in common is rarely why one holds another dear…

Bendithion, A Pushcart Prize Story*

An excerpt…

Metamorphic Music

In a deep and unknown part of Wales (not the Wales you can see, but the Wales behind that) I wrote an essay that became a story…

Pencarreg

“…it drew in, closed in, shut out whatever was behind us, like a wormhole in a galaxy far…

The Day After St David’s Day

“There are lovely lovely people in this land, this Ceredigion. And I did…