Oh dear, I’m traumatised. What happened I hear you say? (I have a good imagination). Well as I was happily going about enjoying last Friday night, I received a facebook message that stopped me in my tracks. It was from the husband of one of my oldest friends. She lives in the US and … More I’ll give vlogging a skip.
Today I saw a photograph I cannot unsee. The photo of a small lifeless boy, three years old, lying face down on the shore of a beach, the waves lapping over his head. He, his brother aged five and his mother drowned when their boat overturned as they made a desperate bid for freedom from … More If you only read one thing online today…
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Three years ago I was enjoying a carefree life with my friends, unaware that for one of them life was about to change forever. Her son Daniel, was 12 and just beginning his new life in secondary school. An amazingly talented sports fanatic, full of divilment and fun, a … More Fight like a child.
Sometimes I forget people who know me read this blog. Today, via a parcel in the post, I got a reminder they do. I received a package from the postman with my huband and my name and address typed on the front. Inside was a present for our twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Why I hear … More Surprise package, but from who?
Can you imagine an 80 year old ex English soldier sleeping next to an ex IRA soldier also in his 80s? Well in the ward I worked on back in the late 1980s, this is exactly what happened. Initially they arrived on the same day, two elderly gentlemen, coming in to have the same surgery. I settled them … More Lest we forget?
Do you ever schedule posts? Did you even know you could? Well genius here was blogging about one year before I became curious as to what it meant. When I investigated I thought it was not really for me, as at the time I was posting almost daily and publishing immediately after I’d written. So … More My scheduling gaffe. An apology.
Isn’t parenting a succession of endings and beginnings? As we leave one part of their childhood behind something new begins, weaning, walking, potty training etc. This morning the children in my locality return to school. Between eight thirty and nine the pavement will be filled with older children greeting friends they’ve not seen for two … More Endings and Beginnings.
A few weeks ago I entered a writing competition for the Liberties Festival in Dublin. We were asked to write 50 to 300 words on ‘the theme ‘Liberties’ – either the concept of liberties or The Liberties area of Dublin, Ireland’. I decided that was well within my writing range so I gave it a go. … More Good writing news.
Are your children going back to school soon? Do you ever forget, even for a moment? Or am I the only one counting down the weeks, days, or even at times hours, until the official day I get my house back? Please tell me I’m not alone. Today I woke up to yet another million … More Am I the only one?
As children we imagine it, as teenagers we think it’s over rated, as new mothers we wonder at our own mothers, until one day we look back and we know exactly what it took to be a mother. This day twenty four years ago my first born child arrived in the world and I became … More What is it really like to be a mother?
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