The Art of Staying

This is Branch. Alluring, charming, puzzling, eccentric, small, big, bold, storied. And on this New Year's Day, when the world is...

There’s an angel sitting in our Christmas tree. Perched atop a green bough, she boasts a royal robe of lavender, bespeckled with the...

This has been a curious kind of day. As daylight broke on this Sunday morning, the frosty air was alight with snowflakes. By midday, the...

As the holy season of Christmas approaches and we find ourselves all wound up in ribbons, wrapping paper and to do lists as long as...

Do you remember that time when you were five and you fell off your bike and the cut on your knee was so very painful that you felt like...

Here's a fact: If you have ever successfully hung out clothes in the Easter' Cove or even better, at the edge of Cow Cove on a November...

A Place within the Place – Holy Rosary Church, Branch The Sunday morning ritual of heading up the lane to Mass is one of my favourites. ...

The last two years have seen me dive head first into the sport of basketball. I would describe that dive as resistant yet ruled by...

Saturday mornings, for me, represent one simple thing - reprieve. After nine years of bed and breakfast life (468 Saturdays), I created...