Tag: dementia
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“WHO ARE YOU?”
I am Kiddo, I am Sez, I am Bread and Water, I am my mother’s child and my father’s daughter, I am mum to Tally and Reecey-Breecey, I am wife to the only other man who sees me, I am exhaustion personified, anxiety made flesh, I am a girl who has more than once toed…
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Limits
It’s true what they say, that the mind is the limit,That any battles outside it are conquered within it,But any battles inside it can’t be conquered without it,Impossible, still, when each synapse is knouted. Each lash, a thief of perception so deathly defiant,Makes all the small things turn into great giants,So how do you fight…
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OUT NOW! The Teacher’s Daughter
Today is my dad’s birthday. In 2022 he was diagnosed with mixed dementia and we have been on a rollercoaster ever since. In his working life, he was a teacher, a magistrate, and an advocate for the voiceless. He taught me so much and gave me everything he could, but the greatest thing he ever…
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The Teacher’s Daughter – one week to go!
My third book, The Teacher’s Daughter, is a collection of poems and musing written in honour of my dad and the lessons he has taught me. It’s only right, therefore, that it’s released on his birthday: 23rd September. With a little over a week to go, I wanted to start spreading the word now because…
Serena Malcolm 