Nobody warns you properly, do they? You go through life thinking grief is something that happens in films, where people cry beautifully in the rain and then pull themselves together over a lovely montage. Then it actually arrives in real life, and you discover it feels more like being hit […]

Easter arrives draped in chocolate wrappers and long weekends. Supermarket aisles become temples of sugar. Children negotiate egg rations like seasoned diplomats. It is festive, warm, and easy-going. Yet beneath the sweetness sits an idea that rarely makes it into our conversations: Sacrifice. Strip away the religious framing for a […]