Category: Courage

  • You were a Stranger

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    We always assume we are getting better.  The media declare:  “How can this be happening in 2026”  “This policy is not fit for the twenty-first century!” History is a politicised narrative. Not the rich resource for learning and for self reflection it could be. Everything is a trope, a cliche, or something so old fashioned… Read more

  • It’s Later than We Think

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    Drowning is a terrible way to die. An inescapable nightmarish ghoul-like vacant response to a desperate plea to live. Virtue signallers blind even to the blood screaming for help, perhaps even staining their police boots in the dark. So very in the dark. Platitudes, appeasements abound. Truth is subjective and we have backed a side.… Read more

  • Dreaming the Immortal

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    Maybe I inherited it from my mum. It only took about five minutes. But she had to be left alone for that time when she came through the door from work. It was pointless asking what was for tea? could I go out? could so and so stay over? She hung up her work clothes… Read more

  • Have we forgotten the State Intervention we Loathed during COVID?

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    I just knew 2026 was going to be a challenge.  For twelve years my husband had enjoyed little complication from Prostate cancer.  Now he has advanced stage 4 prostate cancer.  The advanced bit we knew early January.  The PSA blood test used to detect if prostate cancer spreads had rocketed.  More than doubled in a… Read more

  • A Doctor for the Living 

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      Your expertise I do not doubt Your algorithms, statistics and precise patterning I can only marvel at. Your awards are well deserved  Your world renowned reputation is something I myself spread.   In the cities the Bookmakers concur  and gleam from your accuracy. Your prediction of time, of time left, of how and the how… Read more

  • Twelve Years

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    When 12 years of remission from cancer ends …. Read more