Happy Death Day! (3)

3 years. Sometimes it feels like 3 days, sometimes 3 weeks, sometimes a decade, but always far too long ago … More

My 1st Birthday

Hey Pops, Well I promised myself that I would write you a letter every year on your birthday (which I … More

I’ve said it to my girls before and they’ve said it to me, too: “You’ve lived without him before so … More

In my dream there had been a terrible or rather brilliant mistake in which you were in fact still alive … More

People around here disappear all the time. In the pub the other day we were discussing some of the regular … More

TW: death, mortality, suicide, grief. I wrote this today while I was waiting for the pharmacist to sort out my … More

We fear death, we shudder at life’s instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the … More

‘Mourning is commonly the reaction to the loss of a beloved person or an abstraction taking the place of the … More