It was an eager pair of travelers who set out for Dublin in the middle of August – myself and my 16-year old son, both first timers to Ireland. We stayed at an airport hotel, and the next day we met with the rest of the gang. Our first stop: the waterfalls near Powerscourt – …
On our visit to Ireland, I went on a small excursion to Hook Lighthouse, the oldest still manned lighthouse in the world. The lighthouse looks modern on the outside, but on the inside it looks kind of like the old churches where I live – it’s from the 13th century, just like those buildings, and …
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We went for a lovely walk when visiting Glendalough – a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland. First stop, a monastery with an old cemetery. The cemetery is still in use, new headstones mixing with old. We walked around the lakes, a really lovely walk along broad pathways. We passed some sheep. I have no …
On our trip to Ireland, we got to visit Inis Mor – one of the Aran Island. It was amazing! We arrived in the harbor and rented some bikes. Noel and I both got mountain bikes, and we were so grateful for that! The paved roads were fine for any bike, but the smaller roads …
The first few nights of our trip to Ireland were spent at Wilton Castle, Wexford, an amazing location in the Irish countryside. The castle usually caters to weddings, I think. We were really fortunate that we got to rent the whole castle for our stay! It was the perfect place for a writing retreat, not …
That was an intense 10-days and nights spent in Ireland! My firstborn and I joined a gang of writers (most of whom I met on the WXR two years back) to travel the Irish countryside and attend Worldcon 2019 in Dublin. What a rush! It was such a great trip and I’ve got so many …
I think I used to be able to sleep at night, sometimes, once upon a time. The first time I had trouble sleeping was while I was pregnant a little over 15 years ago, when I had undiagnosed preeclampsia symptoms that made it impossible for me to sleep more than an hour and a half …
So many things I want to write about, so little time. I came home from the Writing Excuses cruise in August filled with ideas for millions of blog posts. But there is just not enough time for me to sit down and actually do the blog posts, other than in my head at times when …
I’ve been blogging almost constantly for many years now, and what happens when I do a writer’s course? I stop writing. Or not really, I’ve only stopped writing the blog – I’ve been reading and writing more than almost ever before, and these past six weeks doing the course Writing the Other with Nisi Shawl …
You have to be in a certain state to have an aha-moment, and I definitely was when we were on the cruise. Which I am so grateful for. I’ve been trying to find out what I want to do with my life for my whole life. I started out wanting to be an archeologist when …