My 70-year-old neighbour across the road lives alone. His grown-up kids live a couple of hours drive away and his wife passed about 25 years ago. Late last year his beloved cat also passed. With the need to stay home he’s very alone. And lonely. This is the problem for heaps of people now we’re…
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Cyberspace friends
I’ve written about this before, but it’s something important to me. Writers are by nature solitary creatures. I sit at home in my office by myself and have no regrets about not being in an office full of people. But I do love being connected to my writing friends. Trouble is, they are scattered around…