Hilary’s Tales

Birthday meals Like many other households we like to have a special meal to mark birthdays. This particular year we were on holidays in France…

My mother My mother could never remember my name. My lawyer father had named me – my first name after the law term in which…

Walnut tree I can see a walnut tree outside my bedroom window. The tree was given to me as a tiny sapling nearly thirty years…

Harmony The word “harmony” has been rattling around in my brain for several days. It Is such a lovely word with many uses but I…

Reincarnation Some topics give great food for thought. Either a tasty little morsel, an hors d’oeuvres of an idea if you will, or a real…

This is the first tale I wrote and it was published many years ago. The memory of the gift is still fresh today as is…

In a recent conversation with our daughter about surviving the lockdown she told me that the birds are waking her most mornings with the dawn…

Breakfast at a diner in Sioux Falls We were sitting in a diner in Sioux Falls with great big cheesy grins on our faces. We…

Unexpected snow in Custer State Park We, my husband David and I, woke up to darkness and cold. Tried to turn the lights on but…

Encounter with a State Trooper David and I had a lovely visit to Pierre , the Capital City of South Dakota, and had seen all…