MarcusLane’s Profile

I write from a crossroads in my life; recently separated after over 20 years of marriage, and with two sons who are reaching adulthood and finding their independence.

I face life with a mixture of optimism and hope for the opportunities and love it may bring, and with a sense of regret and sorrow for my own failings and missed opportunities.

I am unashamedly nostalgic. I was blessed with a happy and secure childhood, and although we undoubtedly live in exciting times, I fear for the world in which any future grandchildren of mine might be raised. The pace of life is frenetic; driven all too often by a hunger for bigger and better at any cost.

My religious beliefs couldn't be expressed more succinctly than by Thomas Hardy in his wonderfully evocative (and I think painful) poem "The Oxen".

I am a teacher of teenagers with emotional and behavioural difficulties, living on the coast of Kent in south-east England.