Catkin

If the world is a stage and I am a player would the director of this ruddy melodrama in which I have taken a lead role for five long years please find a replacement. If the world is a stage and I am...

  The weight of his coffin is bearing down on me This morning I did not want to get out of bed Did not want to face the world alone. I have to put the coffin down Stretch Shift the weight Hoping...

  An eye for an eye A tooth for a tooth Within the field of rushes Lies the heart of one Father, husband, son, friend, Whose time in this realm is done? Within the field of rushes Lies the heart...

The truth is that it is at least five years since I filled a Christmas stocking for the children. I kept them going for a long time, gave them the money they needed to get what it was they really...

I need to begin by saying I have never been a New Year reveller. For more  years than I can count on my fingers I have been tucked up in bed well before the New Year begins. I have not been one to...

If I could write I would write aboutwhen the war endedI would record howwe threw our ration cards into the airand danced into the nighthugging one another I would marvelusing superlatives to...

As I try to move on and establish a new life for myself there is this process of elimination that is going on. People are very skilled at dispensing advice about what to do but I have not always...

2009 has been a monumental year for me. In January 2009, as we approached the two year anniversary, my children and I agreed that it really was time to sell the house and move on. My daughter lived...

The feeling of relief, when I came back to my mother's, who I am staying with this Christmas, knowing that the Christmas revelries were over, was incredible.  This is my third Christmas without...

The ten day beach holiday I planned to help me avoid the real hurly burly of the Christmas season is coming to a close. My daughter left an hour ago and I am heading out of here in another hour or...

The capacity to set goals and journal are  very good features of the DS site. In the short time I have been on the site setting goals and writing journal entries has made a difference to my feeling...

I found DS when I googled looking for a support group. It is clear that I am in a new phase and I realise I am suffering from mild depression. This depression has come as I accept that I really am...

Another link in the chain was broken this week. I had been watching my elderly Cavalier slipping and on Monday it became apparent that he was struggling. I took him to the Vet and Emma made it clear...

The sense of loss and grief over the loss of my mother to cancer, after having gone through this with Darryl, caught up with me and I have not been online for many months. It felt like I had simply...

Something has shifted with the dawn of 2011. I moved to Daylesford, a spa town just outside Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to reinvent myself and start over almost two years ago. The transition...