Dictating the dynamic in my childhood home
On to Day 10 of my 21 Days of Courage and I’m looking at who called the shots in our house… I’m not sure I had an authority figure as such when I was growing up. There wasn’t any kind of generational patriarchy or matriarchy on either side of my family and our...
Tracing patterns back to the trenches of World War 1
Day 9 of my 21 Day of courage and I’m exploring my grandparents’ legacy… I never knew either of my grandfathers — they had died before I was born. Of my paternal grandfather, I know next to nothing: he disappeared, basically. My father’s last contact with him —...
The second mother I found on a beach in Montenegro
On to Day 8 of my 21 Days of Courage, and I’m back on a beach in Yugoslavia… When my mother went to the beach, it was to swim a little, sunbathe a little, read a little, and snooze a lot. One thing she didn’t do was talk to anyone, apart from me and my father. They...
Finding courage from a Sunday morning radio ritual
We’re on to Day 7, I’m a third of the way through my 21 Days of Courage, and I’ve turned on the radio… It’s Sunday morning and that meant just one thing when I was growing up — The Archers Omnibus. Nothing much was sacrosanct in our house, but suggest to...Where I am Making Waves…
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