Granny Emily, a Neville brother and a surprising revelation

I have been meaning to write about my mum and some of the difficulties we have had in leaving her to go on this trip.   She is now 98 and has severe dementia. She lives in a care home near to us in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, and for many years now has considered her life to […]

Bringing death into life.

“Good Grief is one we meet with curiosity and respect rather than fear and avoidance” Prof. Robert Neimeyer Week 2 of our 4 month trip across USA and Mexico and I am certainly excited if a tad daunted at the enormity of the project that we have taken on. The hugeness of this country, the length of […]

Memories in New York and complicated grief

So I wrote the last blog posting all about our time in New York and Brooklyn and then forgot to save it … Grrrr!!! Sorry about that but I think I’ll try and recap very quickly before moving to an account of the last couple of days. First off we want to thank Jonny and […]

Forgiving is not forgetting – Scarlett Lewis (Sandy Hook)

This is Scarlett Lewis, she lives in Connecticut a two hour drive from Brooklyn where we are based for the first week of our journey.  Scarlett is a single mum.   She has two horses, four dogs, a whole load of chickens and two children JT (Joseph Thomas) who is 15 and Jesse who was […]