Eighteen years ago, 52 lives never made it to their places of work in London. That morning, the primary school’s secretary called me to the office around 9.15am, and broke the news that the city was under attack. I immediately left my classroom assistant role behind me and rushed over to the local hospital. My…
Losses: Steps towards Anticipatory Grief
“…as if we had taken the first step off the stage of our grand lives and headed down into the audience of watching others live their lives in full and vibrant motion.”
FINNISH FISHING
“Don’t fall in the water again!” Annsi shouted from the jetty, as he climbed into the boat with Andrew. “Funny! My sides are splitting with laughter,” I shouted back just as he started the engine. I stood on a different boulder from the day before, and cast into the pine tree-fringed alcove, their very own private beach,…
Truth be told during a Pandemic
With the New Mexico Covid-19 numbers being at their lowest, we grabbed the window of opportunity to have the Queen’s nails done. As her PA, I do not have the guts, patience, protective gear, nor the right tools to approach her now pre-historic looking digits in order for both of us to come out with…
Epiphanies, Legends, & Thank Goodness, no Gnomes
When I woke up on the morning of my 50th birthday, I didn’t feel any different. Later that morning, after several phone conversations with dear friends hearing myself say 50, something was gently tapping at my brain. At last, you may say! Don’t you see and hear that you’re half a century old, as long…
Panic within Pandemic!
What do you do when significant changes hit your life?
A Time like No Other
There was a time when I longed to have a daughter, but I missed that particular exit on life’s highway. Now I imagine expecting a child would be an incredibly beautiful time, one of exhilarating anticipation of meeting this new human being. I guess within the pregnancy, a sort of definitive suspension, it’s also the…
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At some point, everyone will experience grief.
The value a moment becomes a memory
When my late father had his watch & clock business in Cape Town, he sometimes bartered with a customer for watch or clock repairs or restoration work. I was about 10 years old when on one occasion he accepted a Sunday afternoon outing with his family on the customer’s yacht in Table Bay harbor. I…
Far from the Maddening Mind of Menopause
Since taking up my new position in the vast estate of menopause, I’ve mostly walked head first with a sense of determination to succeed at what essentially has been around longer than the archaic word for estate as a condition or particular state. It is also a period that holds a different awareness to what…