Month: October 2013

  • I Have To Try

    It’s almost a year since my mother died. I keep thinking of it as her ‘anniversary’ but it’s difficult to know if it’s hers or if it’s ours: mine and my sister’s, my brother-in-law’s, my nephew’s. All her family and friends, her next door neighbour she went on walks with, her co-teacher she worked with…

  • The First Week

    The job ended last Friday. Since then I have: got my eyebrows threaded for the first time, which was pretty painful but not as bad as plucking, which I can’t even do correctly anyway; applied for five jobs; gone out to lunch with some very lovely friends and had some excellent conversation; had at least…

  • The Fall

    I don’t remember how long I’d been there: maybe only a few weeks. It was two or three or four in the morning when the staff at the Place came in on their regular checks and I didn’t completely wake up until one of them came back out of her room and said, almost casually,…