{ A drawing of my father by my mother, c.1980 }
Last week was the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’, which I mostly celebrated by not feeling a need to wear all my dad’s clothes at once or thrash around my bedroom in a hormonal rage.I did ...
Ritas turning 80 this week and I want to know what shed do differently with her life if she was starting all over again. I find myself doing this a lot lately: pressing people for more stories and wi...
{ with Juste and Vala at midnight in Reykjavik }
"Its amazing what you can fit in to these small cars, isnt it," says Adrian at Storage World, watching me load up my boxes. I don’t think its in his job description to help with any lifting.&...
{ Mulligans beer garden in Stoneybatter }
I feel a little bit unsure when I get back to Dublin, like maybe I dont belong here or something, so I put on my aviator sunglasses and I go out driving. Am I a fugitive or some kind of a lady cop? N...
Dear AdrianThank you for your email asking if Im ever coming back home. Im pleased to be able to tell you that Ive accepted a job in Ireland and Im on my way back for the rest of the summer. I should...
This is my little goddaughter, the daughter of the previously mentioned "David the Postman" who moved in to my spare room all those years ago. David married Arna and had two lovely kids in a ...
Jovana says the sky is closer to the ground in Iceland than it is in other countries — thats why it feels strange here sometimes. Shes not being romantic: its science. Something to do with the atmosp...
{ Alda Sigmundsdóttir }
Theres a beautiful little stone cottage in Dublin that I want to rent when I get back, with a tiny overgrown garden and no furniture. This could be a problem because I have no furniture either — but ...
"Youre a New Yorker," says Jeff, "if youve been in the city longer than the person youre talking to."Ive been here two days and I am quite clearly still the newest person on the whole...
{ The Fantastic Ms Cox }
{ West 22nd Street }
{ in the window }
The fleas turned out to be mites, the mites turned out to be bedbugs, and the bedbugs turned out to be a complete figment of my imagination. If youve never experienced bedbugs — or at least never exp...
David left town, too, to meet his wife and child on the East Coast, and I stayed on in Portland and looked after their house and dog. If Fiona took Summer with her then David took whatever was left o...
Fiona left with the baby to visit her folks back home, and it was like Summer got in her hand luggage and took off with her. The Portland rain is persistent and I now spend most of my time in damp sh...
{ ETHER CIRCUS }I took some promo pics of Jakes band down by the old railway tracks last week. They said this summer is going to be the best yet: they have so many shows lined up and therell be all k...
This is Tall Tom, who lives in the house next door and is a rapper and a farmer. When he told me this I didnt quite believe him. A rapper and a farmer? How is that even possible? But he just laughed ...
Daniel thinks I should stop blogging about heartbreak. He doesnt want to sound like an asshole, he knows Im going through something of an upheaval, but Im not doing myself any favours by writing abou...
Sometimes, after rolling around with America, we get up in the morning and go to a diner together. I wear jeans and a checked shirt and she wears her red silk slip with bare feet and chain smokes fil...
A Photo Love Story
Theres a sign at the supermarket checkout making me feel anxious. "Bring your own bag," it says. "And win a tree". I do not want to win a tree. Where would I put it? Almost everything...
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