Your tether went slack not long ago, though I can’t say when exactly, the moment slipped by in silence, unnoticed, like a cloudscape changing on a windless day. …

Navigating grief is difficult, whether you are the one going through it or you’re supporting someone who is. It can be hard to know what to do or say, and every loss is different. I can only speak from my own experience, but as someone who lost their Mom to…

We all wind up there eventually whether we want to be there or not, spewed out onto that vast, rolling plain in some bare, uninviting spot, with no paths to follow or signposts to read you must choose your own heading and go, trudging on at a pace that is somehow alarmingly fast and yet painfully slow…

Weddings are strange. If you’re lucky, you’ll only ever have one, but you’ll come away knowing pretty much everything there is to know about the process. As a newlywed, I have wedding advice for days. I could give lectures about time management and logistics, planning and preparations. But many of…

We married in springtime, in the month with the prettiest name, that long a softening the plosive p and ending with a lilting l, she’s beautiful and she knows it, decked out in blossoms of pink and white, crowned with pale daffodils, she put on her best dress for us, donning a gown of brightest blue shot through with…

I am the master of the breakup playlist, if I do say so myself. A former housemate once told me that having a breakup playlist was “cynical.” I explained to him that I make them to order rather than keeping them on standby, and I delete them again once I…

People need to learn to sit with their Truth, to open the door and allow it entry whenever it comes a-knocking, to invite it in and offer it tea or whatever they have to hand, for Truth is not fussy, all it wants is your time, your acknowledgement of its presence, and for you to listen to whatever it…

It shouldn’t have been him, we both know that, not the first time, or any of the times thereafter, nor would it have been had crosses and altars not stood in the way, our way, cold, forbidding and impassable, nothing to be done, quite literally, and so I went searching elsewhere, turning away from the luminescent beauty of that intricate stained glass, settling…