Tag: Papa

  • Ceremonies Are For Eating

    We send my father off this afternoon with a church service and cremation. The ritual and ceremony of the event would have made him feel a little awkward. Most gatherings did.

  • Dementia In The Family

    I think it must have been more than 15 years ago when my father began showing signs of Alzheimer’s Disease. We used to joke about how his two major symptoms then – forgetfulness and constipation – meant that he could never remember the last time he went to the toilet. Things only started getting awry…