Blog: Mel's Muse

I recently wrote a post on the subject of wearing a ‘mask’ to convince others that we’re feeling fine when, in fact, we are not – Facing Up To The Face Beneath The Mask.  And I wonder, is the ‘new normality’ brought on by Covid 19 having a good effect...

Posted at 15:56pm on 4th August 2020

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Suggested by a member of my Book Club, despite the fact that most of us had read it many years ago, The Screwtape Letters proved to have lost none of its appeal. Apart from one lady, that is, who abandoned it on page thirty,...

Posted at 19:36pm on 14th July 2020

Thinking about the death of George Floyd, and the resulting protests against ethnic injustice, I’m reminded of a story from my childhood, which I’ve told in my latest book, Picked For A Purpose.  It’s Christmas, a year after the end of WW2, and we are living in Dover next door...

Posted at 19:11pm on 4th June 2020

Before the days of lockdown - due to the coronavirus - planning a funeral following the death of a loved one might have been perceived as a positive and constructive experience.  Although not intentionally so, making funeral arrangements, whether for burial or cremation, could be seen as a welcome distraction...

Posted at 17:54pm on 18th May 2020

Last time we looked at Bereavement: Coping With The Initial Shock, using my own experience following my daughter’s death, and quoting from the book I wrote some years later.  What I learned was that numbness and denial, disbelief and a wandering mind, are common experiences when we first learn of...

Posted at 15:27pm on 12th May 2020