Author: endardoo

A newspaper sub-editor for many years, I am now a freelance sub-editor, blogger and content writer. Husband of one and and house daddy of two: a feisty, style-crazy 14-year-old girl and a football nut of a boy aged 12. My website: endastories.com.

by endardoo August 13, 2018 24

Personal

Us, them … and me

Us. And them. But what if the “them” are us — and we are the “them”?

by endardoo August 6, 2018 37

Personal

Like as the waves make towards my own pebbl’d shore

The sea, oh the sea, it’s gotten a hold on me, and Bella, terrier queen of the saltwater shores

by endardoo July 30, 2018 42

Family Life Personal

Parenting is no walk in the languid park

Why does each generation contrive to make these fleeting moments of gilded youth so perplexing?

by endardoo July 23, 2018 50

Family Life Personal

I would have liked to have known you

‘If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best” — Marilyn Monroe.

by endardoo July 16, 2018 51

Family Life Personal

I’m your piano. Play me

People play each other like pianos … some tinkle your lighter keys, others clang your darker chords

by endardoo July 9, 2018 58

Family Life

They come out by day: the Fortnite Kids

My boy has gone off to war with Fortnite Battle Royale — and I am happy to let him go

by endardoo July 2, 2018 47

Personal

Train, train, I’m all insane

On a train to somewhere and needing sweet-smelling loving arms to lift me

by endardoo June 25, 2018 46

Personal

What’s wrong with this picture?

Maybe we could use the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) to sort out real-life situations …