The rest of life – Page 47 – Chris Loblaw, Author

Whose hangup is it, anyway?

Spending day after day with anyone for 8 hours at a time, with only infrequent contact with other people, leads to a wealth of identity issues. Even if the other person is your little one, maybe especially then, you lose a sense of where ‘you’ end and ‘we’ start. On a rough day, I mayContinue reading “Whose hangup is it, anyway?”

An ache in the brain and a gurgle in the belly

One of these is bad, one of these is good. I’m struggling beneath the totalitarian regime of a head and sinus cold, flailing about in a vain attempt to get free or at least lessen the achiness. The only balm in Gilead (ooh biblical) is the belly full of sate beef soup that I haveContinue reading “An ache in the brain and a gurgle in the belly”

Chaos! Frustration! Out of sequence posting!

It’s dental calamity day! In addition to my achy companion ‘the hard to pinpoint and fix’ toothache, my daring young man went mouth first into the arm of the couch. Padded arm? Thin padding, my friend. Net result, mouth full of blood, saliva, and half-chewed steak (because his acrobatics were a mid-meal enterprise) and 2Continue reading “Chaos! Frustration! Out of sequence posting!”