THE SMALL THINGS

Stoicism, it turns out, can only get you so far. I think: did I know this, and forget it? Did wish-thinking take over, so that I dreamt up a...

I’m back in the missing stage, today. Yesterday I was in the stripped of my skin stage. The day before I was in the baffled, hit a brick wal...

I have just made some cheese puffs. I have no idea why. I have never made a cheese puff in my life. I am practising for my mother’s wake, wh...

Yesterday, I decided I would take a day off from grief. I was going to have a happy day. I was perfectly prepared for failure (failure and I...

Well, the Be Happy For Mum plan didn’t go all that badly, in the end. I thought that it might be the most shaming disaster. I thought that e...

This is a Red Letter Day. It is a day among days. Apparently, this repetitive date is the last one ever. I can’t quite work it out in my min...