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Category Archive: health

Time to reevaluate the prominence trauma has in our stories

There’s an excellent article on the prevalence of the trauma plot in contemporary literature in the January 3-10 […]

January 12, 2022 Counselling, fiction, health, Journalism, Literature, Love, Philosophy, Relationship, Theology, Writing

A glimmer of hope in the lights of Piraeus

The pandemic cannot last forever. The Spanish flu ended, and so will this. But it’s also true that we’re entering the darkest days of the pandemic, and after two years of it already, it feels sometimes that ‘We’ll be lost forever.’

January 10, 2022 health, Humour, Memoir, pandemic, Travel, Writing

Who wants normal? Not me

I’m starting to grieve the idea of going back to normal. Not that I think ‘normal’—meaning the way […]

April 17, 2020 health, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

Emojis in the age of the rona lockdown

😀 Grinning FaceThe look you’re able to pull on the first day of lockdown when the daughters who […]

April 6, 2020 health, Uncategorized, Writing

COVID-19: Should we be fearful of the coming dystopia?

My daughter (the second of four) asked me today whether I was afraid—of the coronavirus and the devastating […]

March 16, 2020 Epistemology, health, Journalism, Love, Opinion, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

‘I will be known’: A treasured conversation

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Our last coffee was had beneath the gaze of Mary, mother of Jesus, on December 17, 2018, some […]

February 7, 2020 Counselling, health, Journalism, Love, Relationship, Theology, Writing

Beyond Love: The dying man

They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, […]

August 2, 2019 health, Love, Philosophy, Writing

Tears for my sister of mercy

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I’m not a teary man, not really. But I’ve wept more in the past few weeks than I […]

July 10, 2019 Counselling, health, Love, Writing

One Tree Hill: A conversation with Scruff

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The cuttings of Scruff’s extraordinary life are stuffed into a fat, brown leather wallet, along with his personal […]

February 12, 2019 Counselling, health, Journalism, Music, Philosophy, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing
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