Tag: storyteller
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52and40/40 No Brief Candle
Burning out and burning bright, my family’s in a Change Rocket, hurtling through spacetime, much outside too blurred to see. I’ve known for years that when the kids started talking futures I’d have to already be in my next chapter, lest I helicopter-parent or self-destruct. I’ve also seen as the kids mature they need, more than…
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52and40/18 National Treasure
A treasure trail of research lead me to Jessie Kesson and now I can’t believe her name wasn’t always part of my frame of Scots reference. Jessie was born in 1916 Inverness to a loving single mum who worked as a prostitute and knew challenge intimately. At eight, Jessie was relocated to a children’s home in Aberdeenshire and denied further…