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A Life in Newspapers part 2 | From A Jack To A King
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From A Jack To A King. One Day at a Time………. A Life in Newspapers part 2. April 12, 2013. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step Lao Tzu. LIFE It can change in the blink of an eye. If the last 18 months has taught me anything it’s certainly that. Apart from a short stint with a model agency and a bar job while studying the majority of my working life has been in newspapers. People would say ‘do you really still want to be chasing the bad guys when you’re an older woman? I’m a firm ...
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Footprints | From A Jack To A King
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From A Jack To A King. One Day at a Time………. October 12, 2012. When it is overI don’t want to end up simply having visited this world. LOSING a parent is unthinkable yet it’s one thing most of us will, at some time or another, have to face. The footprints they leave behind determined, I guess, by the kind of person they were. Eddie was many things to a lot of people – husband, son, grandad, friend, brother and on the list goes. All of us feeling his loss in many ways. Sometimes he offered a solution R...
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IT And Me | From A Jack To A King
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From A Jack To A King. One Day at a Time………. December 4, 2013. So Put on the brave face and go to the docs. ‘It’s probably nothing,’ you say. ‘I’m wasting time here…’ you add. ‘Let me be the judge of that,’ says the doc. So ‘It’ is definitely there. He’s pretty sure it’s nothing to worry about. Great. Can I go now? I think you should go to the hospital he says. But you don’t think it’s anything? Nah, I’ll wait. Two weeks, Jane. No more. Come back in two weeks. Downstairs to Mammography – it’s...People ar...
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From Eddie With Love | From A Jack To A King
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From A Jack To A King. One Day at a Time………. From Eddie With Love. August 27, 2012. There is a small picture that takes pride of place in my house. It’s not a work of art by Picasso, it’s monetary value is zero and if you came to visit you probably wouldn’t give it a second glance. In fact it’s a page from a cheap colouring book available in any High Street shop. But to me it’s priceless. I look at it and it reminds me that with adversity comes strength. He might as well have been. He almost succumbed to...
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Happy Birthday | From A Jack To A King
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From A Jack To A King. One Day at a Time………. March 28, 2013. I wish that I could see you Dad,. For just a little while,. I wish that I could hug you and. See your lovely smile,. But wishing gets me nowhere,. And longing is in vain. So I will hold you in my heart. Until we meet again. We should be planning a party complete with family, friends, music, laughter and fun for Eddie’s special day. There may be some tears tomorrow but I’m sure he’ll forgive us this one time. Happy 70th Birthday wherever you are.
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So Little, So Loved | From A Jack To A King
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From A Jack To A King. One Day at a Time………. So Little, So Loved. May 1, 2014. 8216;There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world.’. I like to imagine he looked like his big brother and sister did as babies – small with perfect button noses, rosebud lips and lots of hair. His loss only affected two people. His parents. In all honesty nobody other than us really discussed it. Perhaps they’d become as immune as we had to the pain of yet another miscarriage. Yesterday I visited th...
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Promise Me… | From A Jack To A King
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From A Jack To A King. One Day at a Time………. September 17, 2012. Eddie with his team of nurses at the hospice. Death is not pretty. Nothing can prepare you for watching a loved one depart this earth. As I write my family are mourning yet another passing. Our fifth in less than a year. Eddie had been in hospital for four weeks when his palliative care nurse first mentioned the word ‘hospice’. Zoey, his wonderful nurse who helped us enormously in those first few wretched weeks with a calm and practical att...
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Day 385 and it aint getting any easier | From A Jack To A King
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From A Jack To A King. One Day at a Time………. Day 385 and it aint getting any easier. August 24, 2012. 385 days have passed. Sounds like a long time when you say it like that but for me and my family it might as well have been yesterday. Grief is a funny thing. One minute you’re driving singing along to some daft pop song on the radio and suddenly you see something or a thought pops into your head and you have to pull over to the side of the road and let the tears come. But still he stayed. He was the...
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Letting Go. Finally. | From A Jack To A King
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From A Jack To A King. One Day at a Time………. Letting Go. Finally. August 4, 2013. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.’. IT’S TWO years today since he died. Feels just like yesterday. But it wasn’t and time has moved on – too quickly. Everyday takes us further away from the last time we saw him. I really hate that. But the gut-wrenching paralysing grief has gone to be replaced by acceptance and resignation. We reached a milestone today – we’ve made it to 24 months. And so, I think it&#...
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Being Human | From A Jack To A King
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From A Jack To A King. One Day at a Time………. March 20, 2013. We call them ‘death knocks’. Virtually every news reporter will, at some point in their career, have been dispatched to the home of a grieving family to speak with them about the sad demise of their loved one. These are usually the ‘newsworthy’ stories of interest to the public – children dying, tragic accidents, murder or unusual circumstances. They ushered me in, a stranger, with open arms and shared family albums and spoke of the many memori...
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