Why do grown up children HAVE to be friends with their parents? Isn’t the very unique bond with the people who gave you life and nurtured you to adulthood special enough? Is an unrewarding child the one for whom number one and number two on the best mates list isn’t Mum & Dad? If so… Jax is an unrewarding child.

Thoughts on the ease or unease of relationships. They can change constantly.

Two boys holidaying with their families on a new Zealand beach in summer have plenty of imagination and lots of time to fill in. A middle-aged couple are trying to bridge a communication gap after their only daughter has left on an overseas holiday.

Memories from childhood.

Poem I wrote a number of years ago during a time when my teenage daughter and I were going through a rough patch.

About a father and son dispute which leads to estrangement. At the end, it is the grandson who restores happiness back into the family.

A child’s memories of a soldier father’s homecoming from a war.

An infant’s tragic death breaks the Somers’ family apart, and when Tricia returns home she is faced with questions from her embittered father about her part in the “accident”.

Claire Parker has arranged her son’s sixth birthday party as the best social function in the area, with all the right people invited. So why is her son so ungrateful?