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Category Archives: grief and loss
Making Up for Lost Time
Confession: my son was conceived in the middle of an on-line graduate class. A class I was teaching, no less, in mid-discussion. Or rather, discussions, as the internet enables me to teach two classes simultaneously. At that fateful moment when … Continue reading
New Beginnings
New Year’s Eve, 2008. No big splashy party, no midnight kiss on the dance floor. We’re holed up at Amanda’s mom’s place, a tiny, draughty row house in a small mining village in the north-east of England, company housing from … Continue reading
