As a practising Roman Catholic, I was just thinking that I should get myself off to Confession as soon as possible and confess my sins. The guilt is weighing me down. I've done something so awful that I cannot believe it myself. Neil, my eldest son (14), was only telling me the other day, that his class teacher Mrs. Narayan had given the class a fairly strong talking-to on the need to be respectful to one's elders. "If there are old people in your house," she had said, "you must always treat them with kindness and respect." Now Neil has a lot of regard for Mrs. Narayan. But this did not go down well with him at all. "I wish Ma'am Narayan would come to this house and see what's going on here," he said. "She should tell aunt Urmila to treat the other family members with the kindness and respect she'd like to be treated herself." The boy was right. I had to agree with him. Aunt Urmila is an elderly relative of our
An Irishwoman living an East/West Life