Ian P Loftus · Writer and Author
Stories of memory, grief and the questions that shape a life
Writing from the Lake District, Ian explores how love, loss, landscape and honest reflection can help us make meaning from the lives we are given.
Featured book
Smiler: How do you stop the memories from fading?
After his son Dominic was killed by a drunk driver, Ian began writing through the shock, anger, guilt and enduring love that followed. Smiler is an honest memoir about grief without a map—and the difficult work of rebuilding a meaningful life.
Why I write
To learn
Research opens doors. Every subject offers another way of seeing the world.
To question
Good questions cut through easy answers, misinformation and comfortable assumptions.
To grieve
Writing keeps those we love present in our hearts and preserves the stories that matter.
To grow
Creativity and honest self-expression help us build meaning from experience.
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Philosophy
Questions about truth, society and how a meaningful life might be lived.
Writer and author in the Lakes
Ian Loftus writes from the Lake District about grief, remembrance, philosophy and the landscapes that shape us. His work is driven by a wish to ask difficult questions, preserve important memories and leave the parts of the world he touches a little better than he found them.