I’ve always wanted to use that “Call to action” shout, as I’ve read it often as a blogging tip, it sounds so rebellion like. Anyway sorry to disappoint but there’s no rebellion beginning here and no one I want to rally the troops to fight, (well except you know who in my last post, but … More Call to action!
Do you ever wake up with your day planned and then bang, the wheels come off and you find yourself in a different place altogether? As a mother of young children this is probably not an uncommon event, however I have become accustomed to planning my day, and for the most part it working out. … More Face to face with a nightmare.
Listen carefully. Can you hear the Irish nation cheering? Today we Irish are cheering one woman’s strength, and sighing in relief as a terrible injustice has been righted. A mother who has fought for her daughter with dignity and courage, has won. If you were living here it would be enough for me to say, “Lucy … More A mother in a million.
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As a child I dreamed of being a mom, to eight children. I never really thought about the dad. In fact when I played with the boy next door, He got to be the dad, and in the game that meant he went to work, (around the…
Last night it hit me like a train, my youngest is about to become a teenager. As I look at her I am struck by how much she has changed in the past year. She has grown taller than myself, and now shares the clothes belonging to her older sisters. She enjoys being alone in … More There is more to being a mother than rearing babies.
I know you are all mad anxious to find out how my creative writing course is going? It sounds so high brow doesn’t it, ‘creative writing’? As if I am some sort of apprentice booker prize author, when in reality I’m just one of many bloggers who enjoys writing. I do of course wonder what … More My writing update.
Have you any addictions? Now there’s a personal question if ever I heard one. As my mother would say, “A policeman wouldn’t ask you that!”. Well I have no problem admitting to having one or two. Not of the heroin or crack cocaine variety you may be disappointed to note, something a lot tamer. Some … More Better to try and fail?
I was fondly remembering my own life as a child earlier today, and to be honest it has made me think that my children need DNA testing. They may look a small bit like me, but then again if I look closer maybe not, and they seem to have some of my mannerisms, but that … More It’s in the genes.
I’ve been blogging two years now and have enjoyed every post I’ve ever written. In the past few months I’ve realised the direction I wish to go, which is not to be a commercially successful blogger,(as if it ever was) but to write, and this weekend, Valentines Day to be precise, my first ever short … More A new beginning.
Why do I ask? I refer to the arguments currently doing the rounds against same sex marriage here in Ireland, one of which is that if a gay man marries and adopts, their child will be denied a mother. It has prompted me to ask can only a mother mother, or a father father? How … More Can only a Mother, mother?
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