On loss and the language of loss
Earlier this month, on the 17 March 2023, my wonderful father-in-law, Dr Laurence Bellamy, died. His death wasn’t completely unexpected […]
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grief
Seeing Myself in My Parents; Seeing My Parents in Myself
Sometime last year I took my daughter to a friend’s birthday party. As I stood in the café area of
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Grief, and why it’s useful to grieve
I’ve been thinking about grief a lot recently. When I begin to type ‘Marija Smits’ into my Google search bar
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Wistful
I own this very old dictionary named Cassell’s Concise English Dictionary which is still very much loved and used by
GRIEF it has withered me, hollowed me out;
It is ironic that a poem of mine (a triolet) about grief is about to be published whilst I am
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