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Writing to learn, and writing to understand what the learning is

by Jan on November 25, 2009

I’d like to share a story with you. It starts kind of sad, but the ending is very joyful, very jubilant: In 1995, I bought a beautiful plain notebook with a specific intention. I’d always been a note-taker, a list-maker, but this was quite different. This journal was to be my companion as I sat [...]

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When your best friend’s a biscuit

by Jan on July 4, 2009

We took our little chap to a cafe yesterday. Having popped him into a highchair, we ordered him some ‘bapple juice’ and, as doting parents and grandparents must do many times a day, fell for the Children’s Menu’s promise of a ‘Shortbread Sheep’. With indulgent smiles we ordered this sugary treat for our sweet boy [...]

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A rite of passage

by Jan on May 20, 2009

Last week was marked by a sad farewell to my father-in-law. Though my dad died when I was four and my mother went some 14 years ago  I am nevertheless very aware that many baby boomers are sharing this experience of saying farewell to our parents and moving into the front line. There was a such [...]

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Taking his time

by Jan on April 30, 2009

My boy (the grandson) has extraordinary focus. No I’m not just bragging, it’s true. People remark on it all the time. He’ll get involved in a toy, or an activity and he’ll be there for 20 minutes utterly involved, concentrating his teeny socks off. He was like it when he was a little baby. He’d [...]

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A suitable gift for a boy

by Jan on March 30, 2009

Our wee grandson boy is two next month and the planning is under way. Last week I took delivery of one of our pressies – a wooden doll’s house. He always plays with one of these at a friend’s house and also at nursery, so it feels like a good choice. Of course, there’s the [...]

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