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Fiftieth Birthday, Hair, Health Activist Writer's Challenge 2013, Memoir, Memoir, Memory, Northern Ireland Culture, Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney, Soundtracks of our Lives, Themes of childhood, Themes of Childhood, Writing
’emotion recollected in tranquility’ . . . sort of
I find writing neither quick nor easy. So elusive are the ideas and then the words to attach to them, I may as well be divining for water. Although I signed up for this 30 day Writer’s Challenge voluntarily, it feels a bit like cruel and unusual punishment some days. Like today. It is Day 13 of the Health Activist Writers…
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Blogging, Breast Cancer Treatment, Culture of breast cancer, Facebook, Health Activist Writer's Challenge 2013, Health Statistics, Language of Cancer, Memoir, Pink Ribbons, Social Media, television, Themes of childhood, Twitter, Van Morrison
on television, Twitter, & the truth
This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon…
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Blogging, Diary, Educating Rita, Memoir, Memoir, Northern Ireland Culture, Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney, The Troubles, Themes of childhood, Writing
it does a body good: why I write
The third annual Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge begins today, and I’m in. As a disclaimer of sorts, lest I falter on the challenge to write thirty posts in thirty days, let’s consider this the April Fool’s Day post. That way, I’ll always have an out. So why do I write about my health online? What was it that got me started? I suppose…
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words & music for st. patrick’s day every day
I’m a bit ambivalent about St. Patrick’s Day. What is it about March 17th that renders so many people Irish or some version of it that I don’t recall from living the first twenty-seven years of my life in Ireland. Everywhere I turn, there are people bragging about their Irishness, with plastic green bowler hats and/or T-shirts emblazoned with a…
