A wonderful comment came from Rae to the post Happy Halloween about a feeling which I have had on a couple of occasions.  The feeling is that suddenly you forget that they have passed away, that you feel their presence, that you suddenly see them or sense them in the house.
I remember after about 3 months getting so mad that he wasn’t replying or coming through to the lounge when I needed some help to move the television! I had no idea that he had died, to me at that moment he was alive and even annoying (!) as he …read more

Readers of this blog know how celebrity deaths amaze me…

Amaze me at how the outpouring of grief over someone we didn’t know
Amaze me at how the families cope when the worlds press is looking at them
Amaze me that despite the many wishes to rest in peace, the world seems to not want to let them rest in peace!

I came across a compelling article in Time Magazine about The Top Celebrity Grave Sites. It shows the graves of celebrities such as Bob Marley, Princess Diana, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe etc
It tells stories around their deaths but one stood out for me …read more

Blogger Galba Bright passed away this week – here is my post on his death in which I say
“Galba sleep tight, we will miss you hugely and thank you for leaving such wonderful emotional footprints all over the world”
 Galba was a wonderful, giving man.. what is strange is that I never met him, yet called him a friend. Isn’t that a strange part of social media, blogging, podcasting etc. I had interviewed him for my podcast about emotional intelligence only a couple of weeks ago…despite the thousands of miles between us, social media brought us together.
It also made me think …read more