Related

I can feel myself reverting to the thought processes I had as a child. The way I was 100% certain that I was adopted because I was treated so differently from my sisters, but this time it’s not for that reason. It’s because I cannot get my head around how I can be related to…

Hug

On Friday night, I dropped and broke my phone. When I dropped Annie at Tom’s last night, he handed me a present, saying it was an early birthday present. He’d got me a new phone. After handing it to me, he went to walk off into the other room, but I called him back to…

Parts

I’m going to be forty this year, and it’s been on my mind a lot the last few days. Not because I’m worried about getting older. It’s been on my mind because I realised that, statistically speaking, this is half of my life gone, and only half left, at the most. I feel as though…

Creeping

What do you do and where do you go when you feel like you’ve reached rock bottom? It’s been creeping up on me gradually since the beginning of the year, and if I’m not there yet, I’m really not far away from it. I don’t want to live with the anger and pain that I…

Notes

It’s been two weeks since Maxine died. My devastation is beyond anything I’ve felt before. It has shaken me to my absolute core. I seem to be spending too much time in bed – feeling scared, more than anything else. Maxine was a light that shone so brightly. She lit up the room when she walked…

Quilt

Dreaming I am visiting a male relative in hospital; there is nothing else they can do for him, and I feel really sad. I walk through Hazleton, pushing Rosie in a pram; she has cancer and only has days to live. I am trying to buy a quilt for her to keep her warm in…