Notes from the Slow Lane

I don't know if this is something that a lot of chronically sick young people feel or whether it's more me or the sort of person tha...

First a poem: Cat's Note How often can you take a poem and stroke it on your lap? John Agard Rather liked that, an amusin...

Baths are wonderful places to talk to God and get things straightened out. I was reading some more of the Eric Gaudion book (see previous p...

I'm feeling rather fragile and vulnerable tonight. The parents have gone to visit a cousin and it seems like all my friends are somepla...

Today I spent most of the day feeling appalling with a headache and trying not to take the magic migraine pills, I finally gave up in the la...

Another of my loves, though one I have neglected often, is poetry. I was listening to and reading Parliament Hill Fields by Sylvia Plath j...

Today has felt like a long day, partly because it has contained a lot of emotions, some of them almost uncontrollably strong ones. I woke f...