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Hand sewing a hem with invisible thread
It’s one of those mindful things, isn’t it, sewing? One of those repetitive actions, that, if you are comfortable with the process and more or less left to it, you can sink right into and your thoughts gently flow through the sense of what you’re doing, the rhythm, the steady harmony. I suppose that’s what,…
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Why I write.
What has been wonderful in the last few days is getting feedback from my published story Bog Body. Although I’ve had a couple of stories published in magazines before, this was the first time that – thanks to modern technology – I was able to receive feedback not only from friends and acquaintances but also…
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Bog Body Discovered by Sunday Tribune!
Get my head above water? Well I must have done or perhaps not… My story Bog Body – which is about being submerge and trapped among other things has been published by Ciaran Carty in The Sunday Tribune’s New Writing section, yesterday August 2nd! http://www.tribune.ie/arts/article/2009/aug/02/bog-body/ I discovered it was to be published only a few days before while visiting family in…
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Spaced out in front of the TV
Okay, okay. I am committed to my calling, my literary vocation, really, really, I am. This quote that keeps going around, variously attributed. How to be a writer – put bum on seat, write. Or, ala Stephen King, ‘I write every day’ and many many other worthy examples of writerly dedication. And yes its what…
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Head space at dawn
Last night the baby woke again. His Dad, who deserves a shelf of parenting accolades, got up yet again. But if I don’t keep my eyes absolutely shut and resist the urge to turn over I start to wake up and if its almost midsummer and the bloody birds, bless them, think that the faint light…
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Pay Attention
Back to ‘normality’ after the school holidays, time has evaporated once more, appointments and deadlines beckon, meals, uniforms, homework, housework, nappies, snacks and pickups fill the space. Four clamouring voices make me addled and the temptation is to fob the children off in favour of getting things done. However I have found, when I…
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