When a friend dies

Reflections on loss and life. The price we pay for love is grief. The death of a long-term friend raises lots of questions and challenges. Although I am now in the “My Aged Care” generation, I like to think of myself as being in midlife, provided I live to be 140!  As...

I don’t get Lent

It may seem a strange thing for a professional religious person to say but I just don’t get Lent.  For those of you of no particular religious persuasion, Lent is the forty day period leading up to Easter, not counting Sundays. It began last Wednesday. The forty days...