"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
21 Mar 2017
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19 Nov 2016
"We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
14 Jun 2016
"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."
Charles Dickens
11 Jun 2016
At the age of about 3 or 4 my mother left England returning to Africa with her family because her father, an engineer in the British Army, was stationed in East Africa for the tail end of World War II. The family moved into a very simple dwelling in the Katavi region of what was then Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and there she enjoyed a carefree childhood for a few years. At the age of 7 my mother’s mother died from cerebral malaria leaving behind 4 children, the youngest only 18 months old. Distraught and at a loss with what to