February 2009

Just a little bit longer…

February 27, 2009

Okay, so it’s harder to talk about what’s happened over the past week than I originally thought it would be. You might need to wait just a bit longer. My thoughts turn to home today, not only because it’s another day of predicted high-fire danger, but because we fly back tomorrow. ‘Normal’ life must resume. [...]

WW – Green Frog

February 25, 2009

Warms my heart

February 24, 2009

Maddy has written a post about how her son has shared Surprise! with their local library. It was a joy to read. ****** Dad’s funeral was yesterday. I will try and write something this week about it. I feel like I need to, want to, because (to me) it looked like half the town showed [...]

Incongruities

February 22, 2009

“Which one of you is the author?” My sister and mother discretely deferred in my direction and I smiled at the council worker. “Oh! I bought your book. I had to order it through the bookshop. It is so lovely, such a wonderful message it sends.” “Thank you.” Ordinarily, this kind of exchange would have [...]

Putting death talk on hold for just a moment

February 21, 2009

I’m guest posting over at MamaPop today with an article I wrote at the beginning of the week, before…well, you know what. Come on over and say hi. I’m talking about Madonna and Like a Prayer. Thanks again for each and every message of support. I’ve been informed that some people are making donations to [...]

Passed away

February 20, 2009

My father, Ronald James Browne, passed away a half-hour after my post earlier today. He died just as my plane was beginning its ascent up to 37,000 feet. It was 3.30pm. The cause of death was complications arising from his motor neuron disease; that being, he caught pneumonia and he was unable to fight it. [...]

Rushed

February 19, 2009

How things can change in the space of an hour. This morning, my mother called to say my father was admitted to hospital, but not to panic yet, she’d call me later. I needed to get out of the house, so went for a drive into the city, by which point Adam met me saying [...]

WW – Peering into the henhouse and yard

February 18, 2009

Taking time

February 17, 2009

“When you write the main thing is to feel you are rising to your own occasion.” Seamus Heaney Without blaming anything perhaps my own lack of inspiration, I feel this blog hasn’t been rising to its occasion lately. Agree or disagree with that statement as you will, I have a few offline projects I need [...]