Marching forward, upward and onward
Any self-confessed night owl will tell you that getting up in the morning is not a skill or a desire we have. As much as we’d like to be early birds there is always something important to do at...
View ArticleOh dog, I’ll miss our morning naps together
So I start my new job next month. There are many perks to being unemployed (lazy mornings, unrushed breakfasts, lounging about) but the drawbacks (no money, no plans, no fun) outweigh all that. There...
View ArticleThat Bell Jar summer
A note about my favourite writer, Sylvia Plath. When people ask me who my favourite writer is, regardless of what’s reeled me in in the past, I always say Sylvia Plath. She’s the default. She cannot be...
View ArticleFirst week in Bruxelles
So I left Dublin this day last week, and flew to Brussels to begin my five-month traineeship at the EU. It’s been a weird week. I started work immediately, on Monday, having decided straight away that...
View ArticleReady, s-s-set, go… you’re on!
So I’m doing a voiceover next week and I’m pretty nervous about it. It’s my second chance behind the microphone in recent weeks. I have a stammer, a stutter. To some, what I have is a speech disorder....
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