THE SMALL THINGS

At the beginning of 2020, I resolved to write every day about gratitude. I would keep a gratitude journal, counting all my blessings,...

The gales blew all day and Scotland looked dour and cross. So today I am extremely grateful that the electricity is still on a...

Today, I am grateful that I have excellent gumboots. I’m especially grateful that my excellent gumboots do not have a hole...

My gratitudes are very simple today.   There are two of them. First, the red mare gave her young friend Cara the mos...

This experiment is revealing some fascinating things, even just ten days in.   There have been moments when I have resis...

Today, I was grateful for the Scottish sunshine. The gales of yesterday blew themselves away, and, after some early cloud, t...

All right, I give up. When I started this Gratitude Project, I was determined that it would not all be about horses. Even th...

Today, I am really, really grateful for my children. The funny thing is that I don’t have any actual children of my own....

I hit some kind of weird wall yesterday, which I can’t quite identify. A lot of people I know are struggling a bit at the mo...

I had a great big gratitude ready to go and then I went home and got cross and refused to write it. There it was, waiting fo...

I’m grateful today for patience and belief. Just over a year ago, I took on the training of a Connemara mare for my grea...

Today, I am grateful for the weather. The British famously talk about the weather. Even though I know this is the most t...

Today, I was profoundly grateful for the internet. I had been asked to do a podcast with my friend Jane Pike on creativi...

I’m absolutely hopeless at New Year’s resolutions. I have a cussed streak which makes me kick against anything obligatory or...

The day after Christmas, I did something wrong. It was also pretty stupid. I do wrong and stupid things all the time, but this on...

A Russian philologist wants to be my friend.   I stare at the request on Facebook. The first thing I think is: mafia. Isn’t t...