#Inktober is coming…
Last year I participated in #Inktober. This is a month-long drawing challenge devised by Jake Parker. Here is the description from the Inktober site: Q: What is Inktober? A: Inktober…
Category: growing up
Let’s Get Sophisticated! #SophistiPop Old and New …. with Bryan Ferry, ABC, Michael Franks, Destroyer, Red Box, Aztec Camera, Marshall Crenshaw and the Style Council
“Sophisti-Pop” is a subgenre of pop that takes musical elements from jazz, MOR, synthpop and what could be best called easy listening, and mixes them with a more literary-than-visceral, slightly…
“This is the avocado game”
(edit 17th May – welcome to my page, those who have wandered here to read about the avocado game go right ahead…. and perhaps you may be interested in my …
Every gravestone tells a story: from Drangan, Co Tipperary
Graveyards are full of stories. Thomas Grey’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard captured this decisively in poetic form – so much so that any subsequent poem seems a pale shadow.…
Aphorisms (for an age beyond Aphorisms), Bert Gallagher
Aphorisms (for an age beyond Aphorisms), Or, Reflections of an obsolete headshrinker by Bert Gallagher MB BCh BAO MRCPsych Published in what the author insists be referred to as the…
Simon Jacobson on “honouring thy father and thy mother”
The commandment to “honour thy father and thy mother” is one that, one would like to hope, is usually relatively straightforward. Many of us (most of us?) can fairly easily…
Robert Louis Stevenson bequeaths his birthday to Annie Ide
I had read somewhere that Robert Louis Stevenson had bequeathed his birthday (13th November) to a girl who was born on Christmas Day. Lately I came across Katherine Miller’s poem…
From “Forgiveness”, by Herbert McCabe
From the sermon Forgiveness by Herbert McCabe: It is very odd that people should think that when we do good God will reward us and when we do evil he…
Séamus Sweeney 