Dad knows best

Sometimes, the course of your life can hinge on a single day. One such day in April 2023 was both my bleakest-ever moment, and the day my husband proposed. It was a Friday afternoon when the consultan

I was waiting to meet a very special person, but losing one too

I WAS only five when Elaine first came into my life. She was tall and dark skinned, with a perfume that smelled of roses and big necklaces in bright colours that bounced as she laughed. Whenever my da

To the joggers, dog walkers and pram pushers, we must have been a familiar sight. Even the seagulls who cruised the sky scanning for any discarded sandwich crusts and fish and chip wrappers seemed to

Andrea couldn’t stop drooling over her father’s best buddy, and it didn’t go unnoticed...

Grief trapped me inside my own body until I took that vital first step