relationships

Jude’s Story – Life jammed on rewind

Photo by Michael Heuss on Unsplash When you walked out last summer I thought I would never recover. You were the person I was sure I could spend the rest of my life with. It was a huge shock and you finished with me in a very cruel, heartless way – but you know that. I didn’t haveContinue reading “Jude’s Story – Life jammed on rewind”

Steph’s story

Steph is under the same roof as her husband and children but isolating alone There’s nothing too unusual about my COVID journey thus far, and I don’t have much to complain about. Yes, like many, my income will suffer, we are doing the schooling at home thing, and we dread the supermarket journeys. But weContinue reading “Steph’s story”

Nobody’s Child Now

A note on grief and alone-ness I am not alone and yet I have never felt so much alone-ness. This is not the alone-ness we may all be feeling right now but a deeper sense of alone since my mother died, and since then casting out my father for something unforgivable. I am once againContinue reading “Nobody’s Child Now”