Category: Reflections
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Reflection on Writing
By Shea Marque ~ All I could feel was sadness and hopelessness at the impossibility of connection at the level I craved. So I wrote, in a slightly surreal state which comes across in these three linked vignettes. It was a way of keeping her alive, of making my own connections with her, and grieving…
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Reflection on Writing
By Dan Crawley ~ I set out to write a story about the different manners in which my parents traveled along in their metal frames. I didn’t want the story to detail the day-to-day struggles of their failing health (my dad was diagnosed with kidney disease just before his fall). That is why this piece…
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Reflection on Writing
By Fiona McKay ~ My relationship with my mother is wonderful – if I am exactly the person she dictates. If I am too loud, or too large, or in a myriad of other ways fail to conform to her expectations, then things aren’t so good. Or weren’t, before the dementia, which is worse now…
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Reflection on Writing
by Doug Jacquier ~ Know that when the times comes for a parent to enter aged care, the impact of the choices involved can have a profound impact on both you and them. Be prepared to deal with your guilt.
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Reflection on Writing
by Veronica Montes ~ It was the honor of my life to do this work, but my regret is this: aspects of Mom’s care required a clinical disassociation entirely separate from my identity as a daughter. We didn’t talk about it, but she must have felt much the same.
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Reflection on Writing
by Kathy Fagan ~ Almost nothing is more essential to my practice than asking questions, and, when engaging with issues of mortality and love, there are almost nothing but.
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Reflection on Writing
by Ofelia Brooks ~ Writing about this topic allowed me to face my fears about mortality head-on.
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Reflection on Writing
by Lynn Mundell ~ I took a break from creative writing after Dad’s death, but perhaps unsurprisingly when I returned to it he was the only topic for a while. I almost felt like he haunted my attempts at writing.
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Reflection on Writing
by Matt Barrett ~ The nights we’d spent at her house, eating chicken tetrazzini and her famous coleslaw, were now a distant memory, and I felt like I needed to say something in a kind of emotional burst that became “Graffiti the Walls.”
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Reflection on Writing
by Chris Cottom ~ When my son asked me what themes recur in my writing, I counted more than a dozen dad stories. And I told him I’d worked on ‘Fathers Day’ for several months before realising I wasn’t writing about my relationship with an imagined, fading father. I wasn’t the son in the story…
ONE WILD RIDE 