Todays second chance post comes from the blog of Office Mum. It’s a blog I’ve followed for some time. This is a great example, beautifully written, of what you might find there. You stepped silently down the stairs, gliding almost, and quietly joined us in the kitchen. The skirt that grazed your ankles a year ago … More Second chance repost #12
A while ago I asked readers to send me in letters. Letters they would write to a loved one, a hated one, a lost love or a letter of any sort. I got so many very interesting letters, way beyond anything I could have imagined. I thought I would return to this series today. So … More A series of letters #25.
The first time I set eyes on the man who was to become my husband, I thought to myself……. “What an eejit”. We were travelling by bus from Dublin to Belfast airport, to begin a two week holiday in Cyprus. I was a student nurse at the time and myself and five friends were … More Do you believe in love at first sight?
In my house, in my kitchen, on the dresser, there is a photograph. It is a photo given to me, of a group of friends and I, all dressed up, on a night away, a few short years ago. I look at that photo and I see…. Before. Before Daniel got sick. Before that awful … More Before.
When I was growing up I attended an all girls secondary school, run by nuns. Yes it was as boring as it sounded and sadly it was not a school that suited me. As part of our “education” in our final year we had career guidance. What a joke! The nun, who I had least … More But what are you?
Today began like any other. It had no special feel to it. We could never know that today was the end of an era and the beginning of something new. My older children are at work, or already on holiday which means there is only one twelve year old girl to get ready for … More The end of an era.
Todays second chance repost comes from the blog of Angels Bark. This is an article Michele Truhlik had published in “The good men project” In this post she challenges our notions of beauty and says that being called FAT affects men as much as it does women: THE BEST AND WORST OF F WORDS by … More Second chance repost #11
Do you dream of writing a book? Have you written one? Did you go ahead and have it published? I was reading a blogging friends blog called Pen Scratches, tonight. She said that she has gone a bit quiet on her blog, as in the past month, she has begun to write her book. Her … More Blogging has given me the chance to write, and an excuse not to.
When a baby is born we marvel at how perfect they are. We delight in their tiny hands and feet, the perfect fingers and the tiny fingernails. However within a very short period of time we begin to label that small baby. ‘Oh she’s a slob’ or ‘she’s demanding’. We also decide from a very … More You are what your mother thinks you are!
As we begin to see the mountains of Beara ahead my heart always skips a beat. I was born and reared in Dublin. Irelands capital, in a semi detatched house in a housing estate. However my parents came from Donegal in the North of Ireland, and we used to travel there quite a … More Ireland in all it’s hidden glory.
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