Fifteen Postcards

The size of those mountains is humbling, and although I’ve never felt more alive than I do now, I’m still somewhat lost.

Distasteful was the most polite word she could think of to describe Simeon Williams

I only wish your mother were alive. But the past is gone, and we make do with what God has given us.

my home is the world. Contentment follows wherever I find happiness.

In honour of your intellect, and to ensure that the well may never run dry of your words.

Englishman believed a cup of tea had that magical ability to solve every problem in the world. Why didn’t psychiatrists just prescribe English Breakfast Tea to their clients?

Their founder, James Christie, had offered ‘Four fine India pictures painted on glass’ in the catalogue of his first recorded sale on the 5th of December 1766,

Every girl needs her dad, regardless of how old she is, or which century she’s in.

The sentiments written on old-fashioned postcards weren’t on Facebook or Twitter. People didn’t feel the same way about friends and family, life got in the way. But when postcards ruled the letterboxes of the masses, people used them to express their love for each other — in her opinion, anyway. When Sarah was thirteen, her mother vanished, a mystery the police had never solved,

As an only child, family was the one thing missing from Sarah’s

Sarah Lester, an antique dealer, pawnbroker, and sole proprietor of The Old Curiosity Shop,