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Category Archives: history

requiem for my grandmother

the clan

It’s marvellous strange what crafty wily things genes are. How they hide and divide, stowaway or skip generations. My son is a changeling a Rogue Russian (who were themselves Rogue Germans once upon a time).
I love looking at him, wondering what else he carries. Has he inherited my father’s talent for music, his singing voice? [...]

Grief Stories Are The Only Stories Here

Z: How was your seminar today?
N:It was good. A bit intense. All about childhood bereavement and how we can bring up death in therapy with children.
Z: Perhaps you could just hand them a balloon on which it’s written “Your Mum’s Dead”.
Death was something that shaped the fabric of my family long before my father had [...]