Christmas is supposed to be a time of festivity and joy to the world. That’s what all the Christmas songs tell us anyway. What about when you’ve been bereaved? Among my friends and wider family, there are people grieving very recent loss. There are others just passing or approaching the first anniversary, and many others […]
My Book
The Mid Year Review
I don’t think anybody would disagree that 2020 has been a pretty weird year thus far. We had the catastrophic bushfires in Australia, locusts in Africa, global pandemic and probably the biggest surge in consciousness around racism since the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Much of it has happened against a backdrop of lockdown, […]
Grief is not Linear
This week, my Oliver would have turned 47. Instead, he will be 38 forever. All day I was holding it in, pushing it down – that wave of relentless emotion that threatened to consume me and explode outwards and then reverse and implode me and the world around me into nothingness. I have done lots […]
Happy International Day of Awesomeness
Today, I choose to highlight the individual awesomeness of Sue Tappenden. I came home from the office today and found the envelope of Schroedinger’s Feedback. It was brilliant and life affirming and devastating all at the same time, until it was opened. It was from Sue. Her handwritten notes all over the first draft of […]
My book
1st November is Author’s Day, it’s also the anniversary of Oliver’s death. My book is about grief, very personal grief. I haven’t shared any of what I’ve written so far, but today felt like a good time to try. This is a chapter, in first draft form, that may be a post script at the end […]