When I was a child, I was fascinated by Charles Dickens’ A Christmas carol. At first, still very young, I was terrified of Scrooge and the ghosts, then I was interested and later, much later, in my turn reading it to my children, it made me ponder on the reasons why Christmas stirs such strong emotions in most of us; I cannot think of one person who is indifferent to Christmas – they either love this season, or hate it. …
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Esta semana dos personas de mi entorno próximo perdieron a sus padres, aunque en circunstancias distintas: la primera, una amiga que vió morir a su padre ya muy mayor y después de una larga enfermedad y demencia – su vida era ya un sufrimiento constante, no solo para él pero también para su esposa y hijos, ya que no habría mejoras posibles. Aunque mi amiga estaba conciente de todo esto, cúando termino la misa de corpore insepulto se derumbó y …
Friday night and I’m at home. The boys have gone out – the elder to the birthday party of one of his best friends and the younger to a friend’s place, where their group will all get together for a few hours. He brought one of his best friends – one of the usuals – for dinner and then they left. As I was putting the dishes in the dishwasher I was thinking of the Friday nights of more than …
Today I was officially declared by my doctor as being in menopause. I was not surprised, of course. A woman knows her body. During the summer I started feeling those “heat waves” commonly described as a symptom. Not that they happened too often, or were too bad – the problem has been the dizziness I have suffered from in the last two months, and that I associate with it. Or maybe not. As I looked at my doctor I remembered …