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Twosies or Threesies
I said to Archie, ‘But you could get put up against a wall and shot’. My wee brother was standing huddled beside us in the close, out of the wind and...
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Wednesday Club
We yakked on about God and laughed at the devil. Really, it should be the other way about. I met the devil when I was nine or ten, but I blanked most...
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Tuesday Club
The Tuesday Club wasn’t what it looked like, older men in short and sannies panting and out of breath after playing three-a-side fitba on the wooden...
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You are not your illness.
The girls left a heady brew of perfume behind. I poured Etian some water and he was well enough to sit up in bed and sip it. He began coughing and...
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Cancer ward
‘I’ll be back for lunch,’ I sat on the side of his bed and squeezed his hand—‘someone’s got to make sure you eat something.’ The two policemen...
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tragic, like you I don't have
Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018
tragic, like you I don't have an answer. Poverty, not morals is the key. We use the latter as a scapegoat, a standared practice by, for example, Jenhovah Witnesses to get a foot in the door, is to say how much worse the world is getting. They've...
Read full commentPosted in When Death Comes Too Soon
anger and impotence. We
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
anger and impotence. We nullify outself as we look on at the slow-moving end ot it all. This is great. It captures how we feel.
Read full commentPosted in Drilling Out Blame
yes, our noisy ghosts are
Posted on Fri, 15 Oct 2021
yes, our noisy ghosts are often within, and found in the sin of dissociation.
Read full commentPosted in Esther Cox
watch, learn, pay attention.
Posted on Mon, 16 Aug 2021
watch, learn, pay attention. A mantra I wish, I wish, I could.
Read full commentPosted in Naples: balcony overlooking Via Firenza
group hug and the longest wee
Posted on Tue, 08 Jun 2021
group hug and the longest wee in history. Go girl. Great story.
Read full commentPosted in Pride
It is a heavy burden your
Posted on Wed, 14 Apr 2021
It is a heavy burden your words carry with grace.
Read full commentPosted in Setting Sons
I didn't like my dad. You
Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2021
I didn't like my dad. You always get that assertion dressed as a question, aye, but you must have loved him? No. The strange thing is every year that passes I get more like him. This too will pass is the obvious piece of advice. But there's no...
Read full commentPosted in How do you forgive a parent?
to teach them a lesson.. Yeh
Posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2020
to teach them a lesson.. Yeh, that about sums up genocide.
Read full commentPosted in Pins (6)
lovely. words that bewitch.
Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2020
lovely. words that bewitch. images that travel. wisdom in poetic form.
Read full commentPosted in I Want To Tell You Things
I did read a couple of posts
Posted on Wed, 25 Mar 2020
I did read a couple of posts about Charles and Camilla. And a story in The Guardian (so it must be true) that they didn't jump any hospital queues. They are 71 and 72. I almost feel sorry for the future king and his consort. It wasn't that long...
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