Tumour.

In 1989, when I was 14 years old, I was diagnosed with a spinal cord tumour know as a schwannoma. A schwannoma is a type of lesion that arises from the nerve cells in either the central or peripheral nervous system. At the time, I was alerted to the presence of this tumour rather dramatically

Passages from The Night Fisher Elegies.

My new collection “The Night Fisher Elegies: Stories, Verse & Reflection is available worldwide from September 1st 2022. It has been a passion project of mine for a while and I’m pleased it is now out there in the world. I have described it as a journey through love, faith, death, grief, family and dreams.

Illumination.

“That even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and that such illumination might well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed

Legacy

When you have a child, you invest in hope. You hope you can create a legacy of good; You strive to pass that legacy onto your child & you hope they can carry it forward. If at the end of your life, if you can see that legacy in the eyes of your children, you

The Inspirational Tears.

Sometimes with writing, all you need to do is take baby steps… I’m a participant in a private community, one of whose members has been sharing some ingenious writing prompts of late. I’ve been watching what he posts, and the prompts have been really good – if not a little too challenging for me to

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow.

Yesterday. Petty squabbles about insignificant things. Digesting the day’s news and getting a belly ache from it (me, more quickly than her). Swapping ridiculous anecdotes from social media and laughing at said ridiculousness. Exasperation at the hyperactivity of our 13 year old, the lackadaisical whimsy of our 10 year old (me more-so than her). Receiving