Widow
London - London
Independent researcher/ writer for all things Parkinson's, as it became the usurper for near a score in what is now our ménage à trois marriage. Cranky, curmudgeonly and most often bemused and confused. I'm sure as shit not aging gracefully!
40 articles
my bleedin' hand Now, that's a first! What I don't infer or imply in this article : I do not advocate for, nor seek to undermine those either suffering mental health issues or life-altering stresses t...
Must do this now, or I'll blink-out like a burnt light bulb, again. I've recently come from Implantation of Hope by the exceptional Ali 🐝 Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee are quite possibly the two bes...
Years ago, I used to go once a week to the Children's Home In Tampa, Florida. I'd go with a couple others to introduce Christianity to our 8-9 year old charges. At the last stage, I was pleased that I...
Why do we do what we do? Naturally, I refer to the publishing of buzzes, or articles, or posts. Why do we... engage ? Do we feel that what we know is of imperative value to others? Do we have a need t...
For those beautiful hearts that took the time to read and respond (although response is not necessary, it is appreciated!) to my prior buzz Shedding Skins , I thought it time to offer you an update; a...
I have been gone awhile and I have missed many splendid writers, thought-provoking concepts and sheer eclectic doozies. I do apologise. Judge me as you will but I plead not guilty by reason of insanit...
After the ouchie of my recent buzz Love and Loss , I wanted to follow it with the upside. Action -> reaction-> blessing! First though, let me thank those who cared and dared to comment; you are brave...
This is a true story told through the eyes of a child that lived most of her life in terror. This then is how I see it at the emotional age I was then. ‘This is YOUR fault. You and you alone are to bl...
Youth and love and life-force stirred the sands beneath my feet; arid, warm, enticing; such a beautiful deceit! I wondered as I wandered at such amazing grace and turned my face up to the sun so thank...
I am stalled. Frozen. Frigid. Fretful. Fearful. Maybe I'm waiting for...what? What is it with writing that can make what you know to be true become so excruciatingly difficult to put into words? Deidr...
Reading Donna Wood's recent offering Guns / Mentality , she asks what's wrong with us rather than the the seemingly endless arsenal of weaponry a person can lay his hands on. It's a good question: Wha...
I'm mad. Mad as all hell at Parkinson's Disease; the adversary that has usurped my husband and become the most powerful, lively and needy entity in what is now our marriage ménage à trois. It was neve...
My memory of elder youth to young adult in England were of strike: PanAm, Continental, Laker, garbage collectors to bus drivers, miners. And cold, drab, scabs, rolling blackouts & candles of the early...
Pascal Darrien made me do it. He just doesn't know it yet. This will be my new year revelation, revolution, relegation, regurgitation...whatever; is going to be this: Revel in my true self and get on...
A very routine thing happened to young newly-weds; they had a child (then several after). What happened that turned ordinary to extraordinary was the circumstances that around surrounded this first bi...
The child, capped and jacketed, little more than a scrap, stood stock-still in the snow. The only light that shaped him came from this cabin, and it was poor at that. She'd seen him before, from this...
It's a curious question; at least, for me. I'm not corporate, 'branding' myself, nor am I seeking a job. As far as I see it, I have nothing to lose but much to gain in my personal curiosities. So....w...
It's not something I do much... pic credit I can tell I’m getting old; I have become sentimental. I spend my days watching and listening mainly. That’s what you do when your spouse has a chronic degen...
Dilemma. It’s a delicious word; one I keep repeating. I find myself rolling it ‘round my mouth until my tongue splits like a serpent. Why is that? It’s a two-tined word. '1520s, from Late Latin dilemm...
After Hurricane Irma (my son, wife, grandchild & extended family are there), after the 3-buzz revolutions and revelations of Ali 🐝 Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee recent buzz', I am spent. And it's 9/...
With Irma bearing down on them; my son, his wife and their first child, I have decided to buzz this. I'm a Christian (albeit a really crappy one) and me and my husband have yet to visit this little cu...
I just read Don Kerr's 'Catherine' buzz , which was so fitting a tribute to a life I never knew - he made me 'feel' as if I did. This was on the tail of Lisa Gallagher's the 'Process of dying....' ; i...
In the heart of beBee, three ladies from across a few bodies of water, connect to communicate their viewpoints as a result of a buzz written by a gentleman from yet another spot on this planet. We com...
In his comment to Part I of this series, Ali 🐝 Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee powerful intuition picked up on my need for quiet and isolation; he mentioned The Walden Effect . How right he was! My li...
So sorry...keep messin' up; wrong pic, didn't put the other links in, brain fell out.....but the REASON for this will be revealed at the end - promise! Just in case anyone wants to know, this should b...
Travelling with Pete is fun - he's a great buddy to seek adventure with! That said, those days have past, and travelling with his 'advanced Parkinson's' is quite a challenge these days. I juggle the b...
Phew ...that walkabout is gonna go right up there with my more 'DANGER : do not repeat' ones. A couple that we know (not well...acquainted; old friends of a sibling that none of us had seen for 9+ yea...
Circa 1955, MI. ''Dear Mama ….can’t sleep. I know you can’t be here and at 17 years old I should be stronger like you. Yes I am a bit worried about the operation in a couple of days, but it’s not that...
See this guy? He was here on Bebee. No big thing...all SM (professional or otherwise) is rife with it. He asked for my email because 'he knew a relative'; a new one to me...a name! I was immediately w...
Okay, it's the day after the 200th anniversary of my husband's disease namer: James Parkinson. The grammar sucks on that precious sentence...screw it. I am spent Every time I wake up the next day this...
Death seems to be the topic du jour. debasish majumder wrote a beautiful poem, David Navarro López opened up with such insight in Game over: Are we ready to die? I'm sure there are a lot more that I'm...
Meet Uther! My uncut calvarium. He's a beautiful brute, clocking in at just shy of 12lb (without a brain, so that's HUGE...if I had a brain!). He was dug up in the chalky, limestone earth of the Juras...
Deb🐝 Lange gave us such an intricate honeycomb of delights in her well-crafted buzz: Smell - a neglected sense in which she explores the less obvious ways this sense serves us. I wanted to give her b...
Time is not my own. That said, I'm sure if I was to manage it properly, I would have some time! It is laziness or a lost art - bit of both? Actually, it the manifestation of chaos..... :) Generally I...
It's one I wrote in January, so hell with it...we know the news: byebye baby, baby goodbyeee ------------------------------------------------------------ It is January. This is the time when there is...
I hold the concept of joyous abandon of all rationality towards New Year's Eve with some foreboding - arm's length on the end of a pike would be perfect. It's reasonably understandable to me to 'mark...
It's Care-giver month again....think I'll have a nap. Don't get me wrong - for other carers, I care. I'm sure they do a stellar job and remain blissful, serene and contented. Well done! Alas, I'm the...
I DM'ed my sister on FB (again). Sent her a nice pic of a funky cake for her birthday - her 60th; egad!! We talk a lot on Facebook these days, even though it's more one-sided than I'd like! I see her...
My grandmother once shot my father’s eye out from 500 feet. Naturally, my father would tell you it was a fragment that ricocheted off something or other while he was doing something valiant; that’s wh...
https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/0_0-YtfauRWrgykW1NKuvu6Q?trk=prof-sm And that's where you can find all my snarky posts about Parkinson's Disease. I'm stepping out (from LI) awhile to test the wa...
