12 insights from the year just past
My word of the year for 2022 was a number: twelve. I didn’t choose it; it chose me. I didn’t know what to do with it…
Bright blessings of the season
Bright blessings of the season to my friends and treasured readers. Thank you for joining me here in this online space. My life is so much…
Everything that matters
There’s a beautiful photo essay on Emergence Magazine this week, text by Erik Jacobs and photos by his wife, Dina Rudick. Erik has been battling cancer…
These are the song-lines I will walk
I wrote this post three years ago, when my world—the whole world—looked so very different. I’m reposting it, slightly revised, because I need a reminder: These…
Daily walk in the season of fresh starts
“Now is the time of fresh starts This is the season that makes everything new.” “There is a longstanding rumor that Spring is the time of…
Waiting for the storm
Emma met our bus at Youghal Post Office on Thursday afternoon, October 11. “There’s a big storm coming tonight,” she said. Callum was due to arrive…
Ireland’s best Airbnb
We knew the Airbnb would be fantastic when we saw the ad: “Cosy relaxing flat above organic grocer.” “Located in Athlone’s Left Bank cultural and foodie…
My Irish times
One of my favourite Ferron songs goes like this: All the world can love you save for one And I don’t know why it is that…
Here you are, alive …
… Would you like to make a comment? This morning an excerpt from Mary Oliver’s Long Life: Essays and Other Writings danced into my awareness: Poets…
Stress is a perverted relationship to time
I always know I’m messing up the work/life balance when I find myself goofing off on a day I’m supposed to be working. Today I should…