0 0 By Ruth Kvarnström-Jones In Great ReadsPosted 28 June, 2014Instant Mom Instant Mom, by Canadian actress, Nia Vardalos, from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is one of those rare, well-written READ MORE
0 0 By Ruth Kvarnström-Jones In That's LifePosted 25 June, 2014Why the eulogy was perfectLast week I attended a funeral. Not because I had to, but because I wanted to. My aunt had been READ MORE
0 0 By Ruth Kvarnström-Jones In That's LifePosted 18 June, 2014Flowers, showers and odd-looking frogs? Must be Swedish Midsummer.‘I remember one year,’ said a dinner guest smugly, as we burrowed into blankets under the parasol one summer evening, READ MORE
0 0 By Ruth Kvarnström-Jones In Musings & NotionsPosted 11 June, 2014Why cemeteries are unsung urban oases of calm As a stonemason’s daughter, churchyards and cemeteries played a pretty part in my childhood. Indeed, the wall of our READ MORE
0 0 By Ruth Kvarnström-Jones In Great ReadsPosted 9 June, 2014Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Now here’s a little number that dropped in as a recommendation based on my liking of The Guernsey Literary READ MORE
0 0 By Ruth Kvarnström-Jones In Been There, Done ThatPosted 4 June, 2014The dying art of conversation and greater dangers A young teen stepped straight out in front of my car this morning. She was wearing headphones and oblivious READ MORE
0 0 By Ruth Kvarnström-Jones In Film review, Great ReadsPosted 2 June, 2014Mary Poppins/Saving Mr. Banks Say the words Mary Poppins to anyone born in the ‘60s or later, and they will probably either burst READ MORE