Author: LayneCain

Over the weekend, my beautiful Mom Iris, a Member of this Group, was admitted to hospital in Arizona. Thankfully her condition is non-CoVid related. Her primary concern was that she had left her tablet and phone at home and was unable to communicate with any of her family, as we are all spread out around… Read more

Sunday, January 10 at 5 o’clock in the morning heralded yet another Lockdown on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Cyprus. No more than two people are allowed to meet. We will be reintroduced to the SMS system which mandates obtaining permission to leave our homes in order to shop, take some exercise (yeah, right!), walk… Read more

I’ve set myself one small goal to accomplish every day. They say that it’s good for mental health to tackle things that you’d really rather just not do. My mission this morning was to go to our post office. The line is always long, so it’s not my favorite errand to run. But I had… Read more

May happiness and joy aboundLike raindrops falling to the ground. Relieved that 2020’s done, We welcome 2021. We stuck together, thick and thinAnd now we let the New Year in. And through it all, at home we stayed. Lemons? Just make lemonade. See you tomorrow! Love and light from Cyprus🇨🇾🐻🧸🧺🧦🍋

There are a few items of clothing that only appear once a year. For example, these scrumptious Scottie Dog sweaters that were gifts from my daughter, which I wear with pride over the Christmas holidays and then tuck lovingly away until the next time. However when something gets spilled, they have to go into the… Read more

I have a new friend who, at the beginning, I only knew through social media. You know him, too, but I’d like to tell you more about him. He is a compassionate man, filled with the need to make the world a better place in troubled times. He is a father, co-parenting a little girl… Read more

I used to call myself “the world’s oldest waitress”. The photo that you see is of the restaurant I worked in before the Pandemic. It has now closed, and is up for sale. When Lockdown started, I found myself unemployed, alone and afraid in my flat. Then I found this Group, which became for me,… Read more

This afternoon, I informed Bear that it was time for a bath. Poor guy, getting dragged hither and yon, got a bit icky, and now needed a serious suds-ing. So I did some work for a while, then went to get him ready for the official cleansing. But when I looked around, he’d vanished. Li’l… Read more

This is what we woke up to this morning here in Cyprus. The rain was relentless all night, and the flashes of lightning were so bright that they lit the sky for miles around, making me wonder if I was dreaming of my disco days from years ago. The weather outside the window all day… Read more

It’s 3:15 in the morning here in Cyprus on December 13. I set my alarm, as I always do, to wake up and do some work, and I realized that I can’t go back to sleep without sharing with you, my friends, that today is my Daddy’s birthday. This time last year, I was in… Read more