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a homing bird
But now that I have spent more than half my life in the desert southwest, there are still unguarded moments of dislocation that bring a crushing loneliness and a visceral longing for “home,” for brightly painted front doors and blue space; for a slow pace in a rainy place where strangers say hello to each other; where church bells peal and roosters crow; where there are unplanned sessions in pubs that stay open late if you sing another song for them; and, where there's always a bus to the city. I will know it when I find it. I will be home.
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Dispatch from the Diaspora, Feminism, Love, Meg Ryan, Milestones, Nora Ephron, Online dating, Relationships, Rob Reiner, Social Media, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail
match point ~ seeking romance & mr. right
A match made in heaven? No. In spite of all the tactics and algorithms deployed to make sense of our checked boxes and declare us a 100% match or subsequently updating our relationship as 'official' on Facebook, we are making this match right here, right here where angels fear to tread, in the messiness of the middle of two lives that collided at the best and worst of times. There is no wrong time.
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In lieu of a birthday card
Our friendship began on a flight to New York in the Fall of 2003. I had hired her that summer even the interview committee was unimpressed with her one page resume. A recent university graduate in a black suit with a too-bright yellow blouse that drew attention to the dullness of the other candidates – and the members of the committee – she was open and earnest with an obvious passion for the teaching profession. She couldn’t wait to be part of it. If you’re a school principal, she’s the teacher you dream of, the kind whose classroom door is always open. She was humble and asked for advice and…
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Birthdays, bombing, IRA, John Hewitt, Loughinisland, Memoir, Northern Ireland, Omagh, Peace, Sectarianism, The Good Friday Agreement, The Peace Process, The Troubles, Themes of childhood, UVF, W.B. Yeats
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied
“It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.” – Martin Luther King Jr. After almost 25 years, the British government has announced it will hold an independent statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing that claimed 29 lives and injured hundreds in the County Tyrone market town on 15 August 1998. For the families affected, this is a momentous decision that comes two years after a High Court judge ruled there were “plausible arguments” that there existed a “real prospect” of preventing the atrocity. As they brace themselves for next steps and at least two…
