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Today, Sept 26, marks what I thought was our wedding anniversary (for most of our life together). Then one day, Greg casually referenced to Sept 28th as “the day we got married”. I was enraged! Livid! Disappointed! Accusatory! How could he not even remember our anniversary? Did he really care? After all this time? After everything we’d been through? (and …
I didn’t know whether to yell at her or weep at the chaos she was causing. Paint was flying in all directions, all over my dropsheets, all over the uncovered bits of Persian rugs that I hadn’t bothered to protect cos they weren’t in ‘the danger zone’. Ruby was standing right on my wet painting – a large canvas, covered …
I started making art eighteen years ago. I started painting in front of groups of students ten years ago. Facing a blank canvas can be extremely intimidating, but years of facing this fear in front of an audience, and most often doing it upside down (so that the painting faces my students, not me) has knocked the fear out of …
Yesterday I walked up the tallest mountain in the world. And it wasn’t that hard. A bit of panting, a few stops to rest and boom – I saw Akaka Falls, a waterfall twice the height of Niagara tumbling down the side of said mountain. No, I haven’t suddenly inhabited the body of Wonderwoman. Or lost my mind (although that …
We’ve been made fun of for decades, but Trekkies around the world recognise this phrase, first uttered by the Borg sometime in the 24th century… 🙂 Resistance is futile. Yet resistance is our natural reaction to … just about every change. And it makes sense. We’ve needed order, predictability, and the discipline of routine in order to feel safe and …
I’ve just experienced another milestone. It was five years ago on May 16th, at 8.06pm, that my lovely Gregory slipped away from this world after a four year battle with cancer. We had been married for three decades. The thing is that ‘Life After Greg’ is nothing like I imagined. One of the most unexpected things about it is how …
Next week will mark the 5th anniversary of Greg’s passing. The 5th year without that peerless man, with whom I shared my life for nearly thirty years. Each time his anniversary approaches, the memories throw me off balance, the grief becomes fresh, I lose my way a little and I have to reach out and find my way back …
April is a special month for me. It’s the month that both my mother and my daughter were born: Shantha and Mary, one born sixty-six years and sixteen days after the other. Both photographers. Both lovers of nature and animals. Both woman most responsible for turning me into me. I owe them my life. On April 22, 1992, the night Mary …
The Potent Power of Unkindness I stood in the hardware store with tears streaming down my face and blood trickling down my finger. I had been loading huge, heavy sheets of fibreboard onto a trolley with great difficulty and one of them had slipped and landed on its edge, cutting my finger on it’s way down. I’m not proud of …
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