TRIGGER WARNING: sex abuse / grooming / emotional abuse Two days before my 32nd Birthday I read My Dark Vanessa. I start reading it at...

What a year. A year of loss, a year of gain, a year of choices and indecision, painful times, happier times. Lots to be grateful for....

As Semester 1 of the second academic year looms upon us, I realise with uneasy panic that although I promised myself a summer of writing,...

She opens the door to me and I am startled, once again, by her appearance. It has only been a few months since I last saw her, but she is...

Today I experienced my 88-year-old, anti-ice cream campaigner nan eat an ice cream for the first time in my life. She took little...

Zoom. Our new normal thing. The new word on the lips of society (along with 'furlough', 'lockdown' and 'social distancing'). It's hard to...

I've been thinking about my Grandad a lot lately; who he was, what he went through and what he would make of the world today. Bittersweet...