I am a sucker for quizzes. What career should you actually have? (Writer. Phew!) What city should you live in? (Paris. I know.)

If the last time you went out to buy wine glasses you came home with a five-alarm headache and a bag of plastic tumblers, you, like me...

If you feel guilty about holding onto excess stuff, relax. You’re only human. Apparently, our dependent relationship with things....

Whenever I visit my childhood home, I feel a little shaken by how permanent it all once seemed, yet how transient it all is.

Castles and cutlery. Foxes and flowers. Soldiers and sayings: Many hands make light work. Royal fetes and pastoral pets.

Love. We want it. We get it. We lose it. We mess it up. We try again. That’s because love is what binds us, beckons us, blinds us and...

So when I stumbled across the pretty Laura Ashley pillow-style dog beds on clearance, which I know means no turning back, I bought two.

Once upon a time, inside a happy yellow house on a tree-lined street, there lived a storybook room.

The bird did me in. It perched on the upper edge of the sculptural wooden headboard as if it had just flown in the window and came to sit...

Everything I learned about finding a mate I learned from hiring a contractor. So, men and women, listen up.