Tweet If you know a conversation is going to be one of the most important conversations of your life, you remember as many details as you can, what you said, what the other person…
-
-
Tweet For today’s Gallery, Tara Lara wanted us to take a photo of something we’d made. Something I don’t really do very much of any more is draw and paint, but at one time…
-
Tweet Last night I dreamed my father died again. In October it will be 25 years since he died, but in my dream, it was as though it was happening now, and the pain…
-
Tweet I was at university in America and I was terribly homesick, so my dad had been ringing me every morning, telling me funny stories to cheer me up. On the Friday, he said, ‘I’ll call you…
-
Tweet I probably won’t get chocolates and flowers today, perhaps not even a card, and that’s OK, really it is. Because on monday No 1 Son was home from school sick; and when he…
-
Tweet Today it is my Uncle Christy’s memorial service. He died a month ago and hadn’t been in good health for a while. I last saw him in November, and in some ways he…
-
Tweet I must have been about two, maybe three when this photo was taken. The young girl standing next to me is my cousin Shirley. I can remember thinking how pretty she was, and…
-
Tweet I never saw any photos of my dad as a boy, because my grandmother, suffering from dementia in her later years, destroyed all the family albums. But recently my sister visited my aunt…