Seek, and you shall find — a moral question with no answer. — Warning: references to the act of abortion in this article may be disturbing to some readers. At my all-girls Catholic school in Trinidad, I don’t remember any of us thinking abortions were a good thing. If an older sister, cousin, or aunt had one, it would have been kept from…

Ideas for working backwards from follow the money, to Unfollow The Money — I hadn’t heard of Jackdaw, the project Barclays is financing, till I saw these four women in the photo, protesting outside of Barclays in Croydon. And I’ve been thinking about their protest ever since. Many people wouldn’t want to show up to a protest of four. It’s not big enough…

I was teaching him not to feel, perhaps because I hadn’t learned how to feel myself — My nineteen year old is in the back seat. We’re sailing down the motorway to the seaside city where he’ll be moving into University accomodation for the first time. And in place of the serious round-the-table family conversations we never got around to, I’m delivering little lectures to him from…

Short and sweet at a glance, then the full course at your leisure — Short and Sweet She, her. Writer. Ex-doctor. Ex-Catholic. Ex-Muslim. So what? Writing personal essays, social and political commentary, novels, book reviews and god-knows-what-else. What life experience though? Born in England, grew up in the Caribbean. Medicine, sales, multi-level marketing, migration, depression, dyslexia, marriage, faith, faithlessness.

Part Three — Day Seven The purpose of life is death. So my Baha’i friend said to me this morning, over a creamy coffee and dark chocolate. ‘Don’t be sad because your sadness keeps her soul down. Instead, pray for her. The more you pray, the higher up her soul goes. Up and up.’ I…

Part Two — Day 4 I believe journaling has helped this week — and more than I dared hope. Just the reassurance I’m making time for my feelings at the end of the day has given me space to get on with things. …

Part One — Day one How I feel today — bereft. How I felt yesterday — unfocused, tired. I struggled to get tasks done. If I didn’t have external commitments I’d probably have stayed in bed, waking only to eat and brush my teeth. When my husband asked me about my day, and how I…

I’m sorry to say but I lost count — I’m at a traffic light and someone is blowing their horn. It doesn’t register that the noise might be anything to do with me. A police officer surprises me when he taps gently on my window. Hadn’t he been calmly doing a stop-and-search just behind me? I’m surprised. …

Because I couldn’t be separated from my daughter — We step out of the train and I notice her back pack is not on her back. ‘Where’s you bag?’ I ask her. She turns around. It’s not in her hands either. Realisation hits us both. ‘Quick, we need to go back!’ I say. Without hesitation, she dashes into the…