Degree of difficulty
You know how hard your life is right? You know the daily drudge, the detail, the setbacks. The simple little […]
‘Mum, if you don’t have yourself, you don’t have anything’
Gabs said this to me a couple of years before she died. It hit home. I didn’t really understand it.
That old chestnut
The eighth of May, 2020 – two years since. Last night I made a fire out the back and roasted
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
I don’t know how many times Gabs said that to me. A lot. She would look at me sideways like
Never call when you can text
Don’t you know anything? Generation X understood media tools were designed to be used in particular ways that my generation
Dumb said things
We know that people mean well. They really do. But we often know not what we say. After a suicide,
Everything you say will be taken down and used in evidence against me
As a mother of a woman who suicided, I cannot hear anything you say to relieve me of responsibility for