What Does It Feel Like? My beloved Anne’s fate foretold in the journey of Sophie Kinsella Sophie Kinsella, who wrote the Confessions of a Shopaholic books, died of a glioblastoma on Wednesday at the age of 55. A kind reader of my postings alerted me to the fate that she shared with my beloved..
Tag: elegy
Elegy for My Grandfather: Remembrance Day 2024 My grandfather, Thomas McBryde, physically survived the trench warfare of World War One, including the Battle of Vimy Ridge (1917), when Canadian forces triumphed at the cost of more than 10,600 soldiers killed and wounded. Thomas McBryde screamed in his sleep throughout his long life, a victim of..

