Why is it so hard to write about being a widow? My story has no redemptive arc. No community rallied, no family came together, no strength was discovered. Just sudden loss and ongoing adaptation without resolution. These are the widowhood stories we don't want to hear but need to tell.

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di Jock Gardiner1. Within a week of each other, Australia and Canada held federal elections that produced remarkably similar results: the incumbent parties of the centre-left winning power; their Trump-curious conservative opponents not only losing the elections, but also seeing their leaders lose their parliamentary seats. In what has been a pretty gloomy period for this Blog’s European audience – the electoral situation in Romania, recent Reform wins in UK local elections...

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The Dargan cave, in the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains, was previously believed too hostile for human habitation