Category: Landscape and Nature

What is your hope for the Cairngorms? It’s a question I put to the audience at a talk I gave last month in Inverness. I …

Hooray! It’s National Poetry Day today! For my five years at Kingussie High School library, this was always one of the highlights of my year, …

It was quiet when I arrived at the edge of Anagach woods, sunlight filtering down through giant trees, a soft breeze shifting the leaves. Gradually, …

I’d heard about this wonderful wee festival that happens at the Highland Folk Museum every August – all about wood – but never made it …

At the start of this year, I decided to embrace my term as Writer in Residence for the Cairngorms National Park as a kind of …

Losing my wallet was the last straw. The final sign, if any were needed, that what I was really losing was my marbles. It was …

As loyal readers of Writing the Way, I thought you might enjoy this recent article by Roger Cox, Arts & Books Editor of the Scotsman …

Namaste! Most of you probably recognise the word, some of you use it in yoga classes and some may even know what it means. Pronounced …

One of my great hopes for this year as Writer in Residence at the Cairngorms National Park was to dedicate more time to my poetry. …