I picked up a bunch of flowers at the florist and jumped in the car. Lockdown had meant that I couldn’t visit them until now. They had lost their son a few weeks before in a tragic truck accident and I knew from messages we had exchanged that they were totally devastated. I nervously knocked…
No matter if you were a big fan or someone who has just heard about him, Kobe Bryant’s death was a topic everyone was talking about. Even my mother who I’m pretty sure has never watched a basketball game in her life was talking about him and accidentally called him ‘Kobe James’ in the process…
What a clash and bang of a year 2019 has been. If I could write a haiku it would go like this: “Mum should not have died Probs’ don’t date while you’re mourning. Burn out is the worst.” A terrible attempt at haiku aside, that would have been shallow. Self-pitying. And denying the greatness of…
It was early one morning in November I was on my way home from a sleepover shift as a support worker when I received a call from my husband saying he was not feeling well & had gone home from work. I immediately knew something was not right. Steven (my husband) rarely had a day…