Discovering the importance of relative values
I learned through osmosis growing up that not only was ours a slightly peculiar family, it was also unusually small. While friends spoke of grandmothers and grandfathers, great-this, great-that, multiple aunts and uncles, and battalions of cousins near and far, I...
Honestly, everything’s just fine with me…
We’ve arrived at Day 14 of my 21 Days of Courage, and I’m exploring why I use one particular word as much as I do… I apparently have a habit of labelling things as ‘fine’. I only know this because my daughter flagged it up to me a week or so ago. She...
My father’s unlikely obsession with spelling
We’re at Day 13 of my 21 Days of Courage writing challenge, and today I explore a little ritual of my father’s making… Spelling was a really big deal at homework time when I was growing up. So much so that my father would actually decline to comment...
Followed through life by my father’s books
If I bring to mind the spaces I grew up in, I struggle to recall much about what was on the walls or what there was by way of artefacts. We certainly didn’t do fine art, nor did we do ornaments, and given ours was a 100% god-free household we obviously didn’t do...Where I am Making Waves…
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