This morning I cried in the shower. I cried because of the enormity of world events and because I don’t know what I can do about it. “Donald Trump sacks defiant acting attorney general for questioning legality of immigration ban” That breaking news update, nestled among all the Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...
(I wrote this post in 2016 and have been sharing it every year since. I still think it’s incredibly important our children, and indeed all of us, know about the disaster at Aberfan. Since this article’s original publication, I have discovered one of my great uncles was involved in the...
While Toddler Boy I, my 20 month old third child, lives in a happy-go-lucky world that pretty much revolves around him, his big brother and sister are starting to realise that the world is not always a nice place. First, it was the death of my parents’ dog, 14-year-old Toby,...