This 'retiring academic' identity is all very well, and most of the time it feels right. In a year which saw the publication of my first 'trade book', Immaculate Forms, and some really enjoyable opportunities to promote it by podcasts and radio programmes, I was starting to forget about the less pleasant aspects of ageing.… Continue reading Intimations of mortality
Category: death
Shedding stuff
How do you get rid of someone's belongings in a way that's appropriate and respectful (and even helpful!)?
The end of the road
I've been thinking about writing this post for a while because, as someone who - as I said when I started this blog - only knows what she thinks when she starts writing, I need to process my mother's death. I could do that on my own and with friends but, as I have already… Continue reading The end of the road
The retiring academic 