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Getting in the Groove: daily sketching and writing

If you’ve been following me on Instagram (which I’m slowly comprehending) and Twitter, you might have seen some of the (mostly) daily...

The Museum of Me

My dad was the last of his generation in our immediate family. One of the consequences of his passing has been the sorting out of all the...

Journeying through the Peaks and the Troughs

So, we approach the end of summer, and for me things are beginning to calm down after months of precipitous highs and lows. Amongst the...

One year on

Today was the one year anniversary of my wife Makiko’s death. Naturally a lot of emotions have been running through my mind, and daughter...

Moving on

My deepest thanks to everyone who has supported me and daughter Seren during these past months of grief and change. It’s been tough...

New year, new life

2007 was a hell of a year. I can confidently say the most unforgetable year of my life. I wasn’t going to spell everything out in the...

Funeral speech

We were offered a few short minutes to deliver some words during the funeral so I put together and presented this. Our dearest Gwen As we...

Loss of my Mother

It seems those thundery late July skies were not celebrations, but omens of an awful tragedy. My mother is gone. An active, fit woman for...