Third Sunday in Advent Today I pause from giving you updates from grief’s front line and take a leaf from … More
Category: Presence
The Year of Living Deeply 8: Doing One Thing
I am really bad at doing one thing. If I am chopping an onion, I am listening to the radio. … More
A new poem in support of Mental Health Awareness Week 2015
I am delighted to have a new poem, To Spring, published today at Sarah James’s blog, in With You In … More
I Am Not I
I Am Not I I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not … More
At the reading
I get to the reading on time. I find a place near the front, so I can get to the … More
Another look at Tranströmer’s ‘Alone’
I have been thinking a lot recently about Tomas Tranströmer’s poem ‘Alone’. When I first read it I was taken … More
Lifesaving Poems: UA Fanthorpe’s ‘Atlas’
Atlas There is a kind of love called maintenanceWhich stores the WD40 and knows when to use it; Which checks … More
Northern Sky and remission
When I began to recover from my treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006 this lovely article about Nick Drake’s Northern … More
The art of Jörn Cann
This is Jörn Cann. He was my ward doctor at the haematology unit where I was treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma … More