Tag Archives: new york

Remembering you.

Posted on October 28, 2013 by RosieL

My friend comes to visit. We have not seen each other, face to face like this, for over two years she estimates. We have not spoken together on the phone for over a year. But our friendship spans close to … Continue reading →

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A day in that very big apple.

Posted on April 30, 2013 by RosieL

So. The injury sustained whilst gardening and assumed at first to be in the lower back, then to be hamstring related, is in fact sciatica. Which is just a word. For sometimes screaming pain radiating out from behind my right … Continue reading →

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Three a.m.

Posted on March 16, 2013 by RosieL

It’s been too hot to sleep and at three o’clock in the morning you may as well go googling as do anything else. Things come to mind then that may escape you in the daylit hours. And one thing can … Continue reading →

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I read the news today.

Posted on October 28, 2012 by RosieL

  I hate it when the neighbours get interviewed. Something terrible and shocking happens, a tragedy,  and in the beginning the media are desperate to pad out the story. The facts, stripped bare and blocked at a point, are not … Continue reading →

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We grow old, we grow old.

Posted on April 6, 2012 by RosieL

Someone took some photos at a dinner I was at. I saw the photos and the ones that I was in. I looked again and I thought, I look so old. I am so old, of course, but I am … Continue reading →

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