Alice… what's the matter?

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Introvert. Online waffler. Breast cancer fighter. Dreamer. Maybe a writer, one day…

Category: Friends

  • Grief is a Freight Train (a tribute to Jackie Rose)

    This weekend was full of joy and laughter, campness and sunshine. This weekend was a celebration of life and an anniversary of sorts. You see, this time last year an amazing lady and a friend who I really only got to know in the last handful of years, lost her long-running battle with cancer. Luckily,…

  • Hole-hearted

    I came across an interesting site last month. One that I found fascinating not just from an emotional perspective but also because he’s doing all the right things for the audience of his site; people who have also suffered a loss of someone they love and need to share their feelings of grief, anger, confusion.…

  • Searching for the thrill of it

    April has been a hugely busy month full of exciting ideas and learning new things. It feels like I’ve crammed more new things into my brain in the last 3 weeks than in the last 3 years. And it’s a brain that is WORKING PROPERLY AGAIN! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! 😀 It’s funny how you don’t know what…

  • A life in Haiku – February 2013

    I found a group on Facebook that I liked the idea of, just before I went into hospital on 9th February. It’s called “A year in haiku” and it’s a group of people writing haiku to describe their daily lives. I wanted to join in and create something regularly. I also invited a handful of my…

  • It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

    It’s interesting how people mark the passing of time with milestones and how we assign more significance to some of those milestones than to others. Ultimately, it’s all about the perspective that someone has at any particular moment in time. That perspective can and will change. Having had so many significant milestones happen recently, I…