IT was with relief tinged with a certain amount of pride that I learned within the past week of the imminent completion of a project which I initiated 13 years ago.
I FELT like I had purchased hard drugs. I was half expecting gun-toting armed guards to swoop down from the ceiling.
HOW often have you been sailing along, planning and organising what you are going to do today, or this week, or even for the next few months, when something happens, maybe right out of the blue, that throws your plans completely out of kilter?
Dear Clare, (or, as I call you now, Your Highness),
LAST April the eruptions from the Icelandic ‘Eyjafjallajokull’ volcano kept European airspaces shut down over a number of weeks affecting travel for millions of people across Europe.
“UP on the bike,” she instructs. I try not to wince; I hadn’t seen this coming.
IT all started with the iPhone 4. At least, most recently it started with the iPhone 4.
A recent article in the Saturday edition of the Irish Times about Irishmen serving in the British Army sparked a vigorous debate in the following weeks in the letters pages of the paper.
DAMSEL in distress – that was me. It was a real, proper, genuine damsel in distress moment, too, not like the usual scrapes I get myself into.
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION PART 2