Help! A strange thing is happening. Poetry is being published again! Some publishers have discovered that there is a real market for poetry. Recently my AD (Adopted Daughter) completed her first book of poetry and decided (with my encouragement) to…
Did you ever die? Me neither. Unless we believe in reincarnation. But I very nearly did twice. Both times I was in the care of the NHS. The first time was when I was ambulanced into Chelsea and Westminster Hospital…
PART 2: FAR FROM THE MADDING FAT ….This morning a horrible letter lay grinning at me from the mat like a snake on opioids. I knew it was a snake because it was from UW Medicine, the hospital in Seattle…
OR IS IT JUST ME? Certainly Donald Trump thinks so, and so do the thousands who demonstrated in London on Saturday. As to me, I have had weeks of intimate interface with the NHS, of getting better acquainted, of becoming…