Here is cold, snowy, blizzardy Dublin. The whole of the country is shut down, a curfew is in place, and we are riding out Storm Emma and The Beast From The East. And now is a few months past due on a family, life and work update. Kids are home, Matt's away, a LOST marathon is on the telly...
Read moreHere + Now (Midsummer 2017)
Summer holidays officially start today, but our June was so full of merriment, half our July will be single-parented, and our actual holiday just two days squeezed into a work trip in August, it doesn't really feel like summer at all. Not really. So I'm taking these...
Read moreHere + Now (2016 Year-End Edition)
Here is Kansas, a dark and quiet house, a fire lit and the children sleeping. Now is cold and flu season, post-Christmas, pre-New Year's. The majority of our family has been felled by some sort of illness. Chesty coughs and strained voices abound, plus...
Read moreHere + Now (Summer 2016)
Friends, it was a long one. Summer, that is. It was so long, in fact, my kids woke up at dawn on the first day of school, dressed and fed themselves, and ran into school with glee as if they couldn't wait to be away from me (not that I'd blame them).
Read moreHere + Now (Spring 2016)
"Are you still blogging?"
A friend or two or ten have asked me this recently, usually followed by a long pause (mine) and a sigh. "I don't know," I say. "I was working for awhile, but..."
But but but.
I mean, yes, it's all true. I don't know. I was working for awhile. But the regular work turned out to be not so regular (may it rest in peace), so here I am back to occasional freelancing, interspersed with dog-walking and children-collecting, culture-surfing and normal stay-at-home-mum-life-ing. And maybe blogging. I don't know. Maybe.
How's that for a here + now?
Now, on to the rest.
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