I have recently been experiencing an ongoing depressive episode. It has been challenging in many ways. For me, this time, depression manifested as a bombardment of relentless negative thoughts, rolling through my mind from constant self degradation to fear and anxiety about a terminal cancer diagnosis from every ache and pain I was experiencing in […]

Last night I had dinner with my ex-husband of 4 years and my three sons who are nearly 18, 15 and nearly 12. I say nearly to highlight the fact that we were having an informal dinner to present my nearly 18 year old son with his birthday gift a few days early.  It all […]

It was a normal Wednesday morning. I had a huge pile of washing to get through. The previous few days had been raining nonstop, but that day was bright and cold. I’d put on a load of washing but the machine stopped with an error message about halfway through. “For Fuck’s Sake!!” I thought, “I […]