seeing the humanity and joy in our everyday
Here’s my answer: we READ stories. It is generally fairy tales from our native countries. I sneak in my favourites – myths deep-rooted in Romanian culture and traditions, mystical fairy tales with meanings crossing centuries and habits. Continue reading “Once upon a time”
His favourite toy – a round rubber ring. Continue reading “The dog”
I remember the first time I tried icing on a cake. I was 24 years old and had recently started working at the YMCA.
Continue reading “Iced Christmas Cake”
A Christmas jumper is ‘a top pulled over the head to cover the torso, themed with a Christmas or winter-style design.’ Save the Children UK encourage people to wear a Christmas jumper on a specific day in December (it’s the 14th this year) and raise money for the charity. Most people wear Christmas jumpers outside of that one day, during Advent and Christmas.
‘It’ is the leftover lunch that is awaiting, unopened, on the school rack. It was abandoned since Friday, so it had a whole weekend to work its way into life.
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My wake up call came at 1am, that is, one o’clock in the morning. Continue reading “On World Mental Health Day”
I enjoyed music. I methodically listened to my dad’s entire record collection and later on played some of those pieces (badly) on our upright piano.
My uncle, forever the erudite, would list clouds in their Latin names: cirrostratus, altostratus, stratocumulus; he might say something about the troposphere. My youngest daughter would ignore the question altogether and would quiz me on the lack of planes and helicopters in the sky.
Continue reading “On clouds … and how to keep warm in winter”
I have hand written letters to my best friend ever since I could remember.
I wrote my first daughter‘s birth story minute by minute, stage by stage.