 And now for a complete change of pace… Losing a parent is hard; watching the effect of the death on the surviving widow or widower can be equally heart-breaking for a child of any age. My friend Kerry has been helping her dad come to terms with his life after his wife died following 70 years of marriage. In this recording, she describes an unexpected bright spot (https://lnkd.in/gbNKGsWS) in darker times that made me rethink some of my own preconceptions and reminded me of my mixed emotions when I had some of the best discussions of my life with my mum only very late in her life. The recording also reminds us that we mustn’t lose sight – even as we plan administratively for the inevitable – of what’s most important: taking small pleasures in the continuing opportunity for human connection.
K.K. Cathers (PhD) is the Toronto author of A Writer’s Guide to Nineteenth-Century Murder by Arsenic, a book that helps put the poison into the pen of writers of historical crime fiction. She describes her website, A Curiosity of Crime, as one for the “criminally curious.” Her first book was (and ones in the works are) for those who want to learn more about forensics and law enforcement between 1800 and 1940. She has three degrees in history, two of which also are in medieval warfare (?!).Claims to fame beyond her work as freelance writer and editor in the publishing and business world include pulling pints while a student, acting as an extra in Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth, and overseeing the licensing of slaughterers in Great Britain.
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