Tag Archives: writing

Hotties, history and ducks

Today was a less productive day for me. I only went to one daytime activity, which was the lunchtime reading with Gavin Corbett who was fabulousssssss (and very attractive.) His latest book is titled “This is the Way.” Here is the excerpt from the back cover: “Anthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement […]

I’m basically just making stuff up

The Hewitt was awesome! I came into it with a very open mind. I had no idea how many people were going to be there, how the speeches were going to go, and especially what was going to be required of me at the historical fiction workshop. When I told one of my good friends […]

The Benefits of Poetry for Professionals

The Benefits of Poetry for Professionals We should all be reading more, but the Harvard Business Review says that we shouldn’t neglect poetry. “For one, poetry teaches us to wrestle with and simplify complexity.” Read the linked blog post for more reasons to add poetry to our reading list. Nessa O’Mahony would be happy, too. 

Acting like a lady

For me, my audience is largely those back home. To give them some insight into what I’m doing in Armagh and to inspire future students to want to study here. The majority of the things I learned while in here in Armagh I had no idea of back home, the troubles, the murals and the […]