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Well in the manner of all Mothers, mine is prone to blowing things out of proportion. If I allow Finley to go up the stairs all by himself he will, of course, fall down and break his neck. If I decide on a whim to drive out of the zone marked safe on my Mum’s…
I buy old books. Lots of them. I can’t help it and as an addiction, it’s right up there with my compulsive need to buy magazines. Even on the days we can barely afford food. So I choke in the dust in secondhand bookshops run by mad old men, harass spinster ladies in the Oxfam…
Influential weekend decisions And so it seems that when big influential decisions are made, they are made quite suddenly. In this case, the weekend. In the ordinary process of conversation. When someone says something, (a nothing, a meandering idea) and something simply clicks in your brain. Change happens in the float of a thought. This…
This is such a lovely book. It tells the story of a modern day Broadway star, Geneva Jordan, who suddenly finds herself in small town America in sole charge of her thirteen year nephew, a boy with Down Syndrome. Very few books handle conditions like Down Syndrome with the sensitivity that Lorna Landvik does here:…
Well heckity pie, just when it seemed life was finally settling in to something lovely, I find myself almost homeless. No really. Homeless. Not quite on the streets. But one week away from completion on my little house and a few weeks away from eviction here in the bungalow because the landlord has finally confirmed…
You are not failing. You are not hopeless. You are not broken. You are not rubbish. If you are anything like me then thoughts like these revolve around your head every day. They scratch at your eyes in the middle of the night so you have to open them and stare all over again…
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