An Oscar Winner No Less

Having recently cleared out our family home I am now the proud custodian of some of our family photos. There is a very battered fake leather album into which my mother stuck the ‘good photos’, each one held in place by black corner sticky hinge things. The photos that...
SERENDIPITIOUS SUMMER

SERENDIPITIOUS SUMMER

My book, Wise Up (Wisdom, Power, and the Older Woman) published last June and just over a month later I was in my beloved Ahakista on the Sheep’s Head Peninsual in West Cork.  Ahakista is not really a village, but it does have two great pubs, one of which is the Tin...
WISE UP…..

WISE UP…..

New book. It’s been so long since I posted on my blog, I have almost forgotten how to do it. But I wanted to let you know that I have written a book. Covid lockdowns swept away all my excuses and I finally managed to write more than 10,000 words –...
The Hopefulness of Geese

The Hopefulness of Geese

This is the longer text of my script which was broadcast on RTE Radio One, Sunday Miscellany on 14 November 2021. A link to the programme is here https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22029731/ Photo by Jan Rod It’s in November I hear them first. It begins as an echo...
Be The Change

Be The Change

Written for Sunday Miscellany 50th anniversary Mia my youngest daughter is a music obsessed, art mad, 18-year-old hippie.  Her bedroom looks like something that the 1970s left behind, with the dark purple walls adorned with batik hangings, photos of her favourite...