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Category Archives: Parenting
Moment
28th March A moment to myself while they sleep upstairs. Conversations from outside float through the window, a plane drones in the sky. I sit still and listen to the brush of sandpaper on a window frame, the slam of a car door, the call of an unknown bird. It is these little things thatContinueContinue reading “Moment”
11th May 2011
11th May 2011 And the night after the frustrations, there is a clarity, like the first bite of a lemon cake or a gin and tonic, slipped down the neck. There is space for the first time in a long time. I am hair-washed, sitting in a house clean and dusted, with the stillness ofContinueContinue reading “11th May 2011”
9th May 2010
There we were in the park, me and you, our two babies, this older couple, two kids, their grandchildren (I assumed), and the sun beating down on us. You were happy, Sam, as you ran about in the long grass, pointed at the bugs on the bin, laughed at me through the windows on theContinueContinue reading “9th May 2010”
The small things
19th Aug 2010 Here’s the idea: the small things, the insignificant, the unseen, the detail. This is what got me thinking: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is theContinueContinue reading “The small things”
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