Welcome!
šLEAVES are here solely to entertain you. Thatās it!
They are perfect every morning with your coffee and All- Bran. Much better for your mental health than the daily newspaper. Guaranteed!
They will make you laugh, sigh and wonder ⦠and maybe offer a little respite from this mad world for a few minutes each day.
šLEAVES will not help you get fit, or save the planet, or organize your closet, or make a great lasagna, but you will usually find here:
evocative travel tales from a woman who takes to the road alone
lightly snarky, humorous commentary on life and aging
short character-driven fiction and micro-fiction
family tales from a tribe possibly not unlike your own
short articles about antique lace
silly ( but true) cat stories for the ailurophile readers
AND one or two chapters from Bartle Clunes - published serially and kept in the archive so you can start at the beginning.
We have a lot in common, you and I ā we are, after all, probably of the same species! Admittedly, I am slightly askew from having lived in Santa Cruz my whole life, but if you are not afraid to muck about inside my lightly demented, but invariably optimistic old head, please stop in daily for a quick read in the archive.
šLEAVES are free for everyone. Subscribers receive a couple of new posts every Saturday morning via email ā plus the latest chapters from Bartle Clunes. Stop by any time to catch up on what youāve missed. It is all worthy. No kidding.
Sharron Bassano
Find šLEAVES at - sharronbassano.substack.com
Click on the little red leaf on any page to find my archive of posts.