I returned to England last Thursday after a visit home to see my uncle who was losing his life to pancreatic cancer. On Friday, shortly after I’d made it back to Exeter where I live, I got the call that he had died. The swiftness of his passing was a great shock to us all, and … Continue reading
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Full of Wonders
I’m in the airport waiting for my flight back to Britain. I came back to America to visit my uncle with terminal cancer. I have a purple rubber Pancreatic Cancer Awareness band around my wrist. My mother and I drove back to Tampa together while my dad stayed up north with the rest of the family … Continue reading
Painted Women
I am absolutely in love with this new BBC series, “Desperate Romantics.” It’s about the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the Victorian period. It’s being told in the voice of Frederic George Stephens (Fred), a writer portrayed in the series as a moth to the dazzling personalities of the artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman … Continue reading