ALARIC MARK LEWIS

About fifty years ago my father, on one of our drives around the tiny country roads that snaked through Macoupin County, Illinois, wedged...

One of my favourite paintings at the National Gallery in Washington DC is an illustration from the story of Daniel. In spite of being a...

In the summer of 1975, when I was nine years old, I stepped on a nest of wasps. The painful event occurred at my grandparents' cabin on...

I have a grandnephew named Carson who is nine years old and is astoundingly fun to be around. He is enthusiastic and energetic and...

Yesterday my niece Jen put a photograph on Facebook that I had taken more than ten years ago of my my sister Kathy and my grandniece...

I'm not entirely sure how, but after the death of my mother I ended up in possession of her wallet. It is of black leather, and filled...

I love Holy Saturday. I always find Maundy Thursday and Good Friday so draining – I really get into them and it takes it out of me, I can...

Some years ago I was waiting at a pub in Budapest to meet a friend of mine. I was, as I suppose I am wont to do when sitting alone in a...

My sister Kathy was a fantastic cook. She was not a fancy cook – no pretentious things with French-sounding names could be found on her...

One of the enjoyable functions of Facebook is the memories section which shows what you posted on that day in past years. Since I...

Nearly two years ago my friend Sandra came to visit from Rome. Flying through Amsterdam, she picked up some of the famous Dutch tulip...

It seems that each time there is a tragic crisis in the world, the inevitable question arises: "Where is God?" It is, of course, a fair...

Some years ago, in preparation to lead a guided reading class, I read through hundreds of letters from both victims and survivors of the...

My next door neighbours are a young family with three – or maybe four – small children. (I've never been able to get an accurate...

One of the interesting characteristics of praying together separately, as it were, is that it provides for a great deal of individuality....

Last night I was interviewed by Phil Daley on BBC Radio Norfolk. I'd done radio and tv interviews before, but never live, so was a little...

I'm always trying to find something positive in even the direst of situations (something that I know tends to annoy some folk) and one of...

When I was six years old I saw Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" for the first time, when it aired on the ABC network in 1973,...

Some time ago my 84 year-old father - the adorable George - discovered that he could send text messages on his iPhone by dictating to...

A few days ago I encountered some neighbours who live just on the other side of the river from me. We met on the bridge that connects us...