One of the epic films of the 1990s was Titanic, propelling Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio on to the big screen. DiCaprio, playing an honest and cheeky working class chap,…
Years ago, when I was young and newly ordained - so I must have been about 25 - I remember attending a party after a funeral. I was at the…
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” so sang Marilyn Monroe. They were stedfast, she opined, unlike men who just grow cold. Part of the wonder of most diamonds is that…
I’m not a huge fan of bees and the thought of keeping a beehive would fill me with alarm for fear of being stung. Someone once suggested I started keeping…
We sometimes say of someone that they “had a good death.” By which we mean perhaps, they’d been able to prepare. They’d seen loved ones. It was peaceful. Sometimes people…