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WOMEN – AGEING AND GETTING OLDER

“Look twenty years younger!” “Discover the Fountain of youth”. As we get older, women hear comments about themselves and other women that fall somewhere between “you don’t / she doesn’t look your/ her age!” (meaning, that’s a good thing), and …

Letting Go

She’s gone. My friend of almost thirty years’ standing died on February 10, 2017, after a protracted battle with ovarian cancer. As I continued to prepare for the death of my dear friend (Kate), I was struck by the similarities between …

Life Housekeeping

Towards the end of the last calendar year, I found myself in the grip of a powerful urge to clean up my affairs on all sorts of levels; that sense of housekeeping urgency has followed me into the new year. …

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Preparing for death and dying

Death. It comes to us, ready or not. Preparing for death and dying. It seems there’s been a lot of it in my life the last month or so. The privilege of bearing witness to the thoughtful actions of a close …