Keep it in the family: Intolerance
Part 1: Intro 99.9% Caucasian my electorate as a child. Part 2: Nepotism “It’s not the same.” My anger flares – I’m thirteen, reading a congratulatory letter – one sent to my mother after my birth....
View ArticleMy father’s writing box (a Miltonic Sonnet)
Of his possessions it was my favourite – a writing box divine in marquetry: with exquisitely crafted lid inlay opening to green felt whereon words were writ. At its appearance my eyes would be lit by...
View ArticleOrphanhood
[photo credit: pure insight.org] Alone and abandoned, maturing too quickly, veiled in vulnerability – lost child. She learns to trust strangers, finds the word “family” to be plural not singular –...
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