Two Bars of Warmth: A Winter’s Tale of Quiet Resilience
Every winter, when the frost begins to settle on the window panes and the days grow shorter, Edith, now in her 90th year, faces a familiar challenge. Her small, cosy home is cold, but the heating stays off. It’s simply too expensive to run. Instead, Edith relies on her old electric fire in the sitting […]
From Rock Bottom to Redemption: A Bricklayer’s Journey Through Addiction, Loss, and Recovery
I am a bricklayer by trade, and I’ve been dealing with drug addiction for most of my life. For a long time, I managed to keep things together as a functioning addict, balancing my work with my addiction. But everything took a devastating turn when my partner, whom I was deeply attached to, took his […]
