How to turn a day off into an existential crisis in 10 easy steps: Step 1: Upon waking, identify as many aches and pains as possible. List all the things that you are sad or worried about. Take those woes into the shower with you and encourage them to mushroom into full-on catastrophes. Step 2: …
By all accounts I was a very chatty child, too chatty going by the many sayings my father used to get me to pipe down. ‘A quarter of the talk Margaret’, was his mantra of choice, followed by ‘If there were prizes going for talking Margaret, you’d win them hands down’. But the one that …
My biggest fear these days, and believe me I have many, is that we will completely lose our sense of craic during all this. We are all being so good, so obedient, rightly so, but don’t we also have to maintain a spark of devilment. I have discovered a few trigger words that make me …
I wasn’t always a proud Dub. Holidays to my parent’s homeplaces of Thurles and Rathdowney, left me in no doubt that I was living in a lesser place. The uncles of both kingdoms never ceased to be amazed that children could be reared in Dirty Dublin. ‘Sure, ye don’t know what fresh air is at …
Ordinary Plenty 