About twenty years ago my two sisters, quite independently, went travelling and, somehow, never got further than the USA. Personally, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to…
Robert Buckland, the Conservative MP for Swindon South, described the event as ‘the best public meeting I have ever attended’. It was full. It was business-like. It was…
Exasperation would drive my mother to exclaim ‘“I-Don’t-Care” was MADE to care’. She was looking for an Universal Moral Law to counter some egregious act that had caught…
I am part of what once was But might be so again. Did we love once? Were we one? Two hearts with but a single rhythm?
Circles of Support and Accountability have two main, interconnected aims: to protect the public and to reduce re-offending. A Circle comprises trained volunteers, usually four,…
A moment of quiet. A collection of my thoughts. A ragbag stuffed with the past: overfull sometimes, memories spilling out of it and spitting venom at me. Then the silence of the…
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