Category: Grief, Death and Dying

• The Healing Power of Baking

  

  My mother was an excellent cook and she always baked on Saturdays. Although our 1960’s kitchen was small and lacking in modern style worktops, the twin tub washing machine cover, the flap of the 60’s dresser and the top of the fridge were transformed into baking tables. Mum taught my three younger sisters and I…

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  April 13, 2026

  Grief, Death and Dying

  Baking, Grief, Recipe for Treacle Scone, Treacle Scone Recipe

• The Gift of Time

  

  I took a month off from blogging and social media over Christmas, And I embraced the gift of TIME. My dear aunt Peggy was nearing the end of her TIME on this good Earth, Thus I was able to spend precious quiet TIME by her bedside. The last of a family of eleven, She passed…

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  January 23, 2019

  Grief, Death and Dying

  Death and Dying, Grief

• The Swansong Project

  

  “In a song there is a soul that is eternal.” Ben Buddy Slack watched his grandmother Teresa (my aunt) deteriorate due to Alzheimer’s. “Towards the end me and my uncle sang her favourite songs to her. She was pretty unresponsive because she had Alzheimer’s – but when we began to sing she kind of lit…

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  November 1, 2017

  Grief, Death and Dying

  Death and Dying, Music, Music Therapy, Singing, The Swan Song Project

• This Too Shall Pass

  

  On Friday my sister passed away after a relatively short illness. It was a very powerful reminder of how fragile life can be… I wrote this poem several years ago, seated beneath a giant bell that faces a local graveyard. For Whom The Bell Tolls Seagulls scream overhead, Above the mighty bell, While Inis Caorach…

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  September 8, 2017

  Grief, Death and Dying

  Death and Dying, Grief, Grief Poetry, Poetry