Parenting with Cancer – 3

Cancer took from me too, not least in that it took from me every aspect of my relationship with Nat. Over the three years or so of her illness, the cancer slowly smoothed away all the choices and quirks which made our relationship what it was. And now as I sit here a year after her death, I also begin to understand that it also took my memories of what our relation was before the cancer.

Parenting with Cancer – 2

If you know someone dealing with cancer, please, pick up your phone, reach out to them and tell them to keep going, that they’re doing an amazing job.

Familiarity in Rabat, Morocco

Throughout this first day in Rabat I have been trying to think of cultural references to Morocco in the British cultural landscape; the best that I have come up with is the Prince of Morocco in the Merchant of Venice (though there are Moors in other plays of the period, Othello, Aron in Titus Andronicus