Category: Life

an end to holidays. 0

an end to holidays.

I think I can now safely say that after six plane trips and dozens of car rides with Roz, she is a very easy baby to travel with. We’re finally back from our mini...

All’s well that ends… 0

All’s well that ends…

This last week, Roz and I were exploring the art (or should that be language?) of baby signing. Very basically, baby sign language came from observations that the children of deaf parents are able...

when sorry seems to be the hardest of words. 0

when sorry seems to be the hardest of words.

Margaret Laurence once said, “In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.” I can most definitely say that when I was growing up, my family...

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what’s in a name….

It’s a funny thing about names. You never know how important they are until someone forgets it, or calls you by a different one. In my tribe, when a child is born, they have...

home sweet, sunny  home. 0

home sweet, sunny home.

Well, after two glorious weeks, we are all back in Ireland. Apologies for missing a week before we left. I was just so busy that I couldn’t think straight! Anyhoo, the thing I dreaded...

Bus rides and coffee and more. 0

Bus rides and coffee and more.

It’s been an eventful two weeks. Dare I say I’ve finally made a (gulp!) friend? This is the girl I met on the bus a few weeks back. There’s this policy on Dublin bus...

Dating is such sweet sorrow. 0

Dating is such sweet sorrow.

A while back, I told you I was going on two dates…well, they finally happened.  I didn’t write about them earlier because, to be honest, there wasn’t anything to write about. We kept postponing...

My troubles with gods…part 3 2

My troubles with gods…part 3

Yeah, then I came to Ireland.  Boy, oh, boy was the catholic church here different or what? I even disliked going to church here, which is the one place I should have felt a...