To be honest I really wasn’t surprised by what I found when I entered my uncle’s house that first day.…
death
A Task and a Half at Malin Road…
At the beginning of 2020 Hubs and I travelled to England for a cultural break. It was January, no-one goes…
Dying Well…
My cousin, in the year before she died, was talking to me on the phone from England. She would call…
This Mortal Life…
Today, when I heard the news that a talented man we had all once worked with in the theatre had…
Remembering the Dead…
I was reading a beautiful poem by John O’Donohue, At the End of the Day, where he asks twenty-two questions,…
Birthday Wishes and R.I.P…
And so another year passes and I am at a point where I catch myself thinking, “This has been too…
Hot Air Balloon…
Most Sundays Hubs and I see a hot air balloon descending as we make our way to church along the…
Ascension…
For years I have taken the Ascension at face value, believing what I had been taught as a child and…
Remembering Daddy…
Today would have been my father’s 91st birthday! As I wrote a few weeks ago, I miss him more now…
Missing Them More…
When my parents first died their physical absence was uppermost in my mind. I thought about them daily and was…