Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  Stories about selkies are ambiguous, evocative, sad.             This is largely because of the way seals themselves affect us. Bobbing ...

  This tale comes from John Masefield’s collection of sea stories   ‘ A Mainsail Haul ’, first published in 1905 when the author was only 26...

An airthlie nourrice sits and sings, And aye she sings, Ba lily wean! Little ken I my bairnis father Far less the land that he stap...

Harbor seal at Seal beach, La Jolla, California. © Ralph Pace I am delighted to welcome Laura Marjorie Miller to the blog. Laura ...