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Open white envelope with a blue can inside on which is written the word SPAM in yellow

2024 Grateful 26: Spam

Three blogs. Three times more likely to attract spam comments. Somedays, I take a little time to figure out why they chose that particular post

Photo of a greeting card - white, with a green leaf imprint and the words 'While the rest of the world carries on as though nothing has happened, remember that others know your world will never be the same."

2024 Grateful 27: Condolences

In the last year or so, I’ve made note of a few things I won’t be saying again. Things I used to say with abandon.

Cartoon of a girl sitting behind a boy in a classroom, each holding up a sheet of paper. Caption says: Questions number one

2024 Grateful 28: Questions

Dead people have populated my dreams of late, friends and relatives who have crossed over into the next life. There’s a randomness to it. They

2024 Grateful 29: Time Travel

Somewhere recently, with someone, the conversation of time travel came up. They spoke about how travel into the future might technically be possible, given the

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I went to visit my dad today. I brought him roses from his garden. I think he’d have liked that. We didn’t talk much. He

Two white-haird women sitting on a bench. Another is playing hopscotch - jumping through numbered squares chalked on the ground. The text reads: Don't worry about getting old, worry about thinking old.

2024 Grateful 31: Old Age

To distract myself as European and local election results trickle in, I did a poll of my own. I stumbled on this today and reading

Book cover - blue and white strips with AGEING OF THE OPPRESSED in red capitals followed by A pandemic of intersecting injustice. Edited by Silvia Perel-Levin

2024 Grateful 32: Ageing of the Oppressed

One of the things I enjoy most about my work is the variety of stuff I get to read. This past week, for instance, I

2024 Grateful 33: Artisinal visions

It could have been everything it wasn’t. It could have been a load of pretentious codswallop with indecipherable art and mediocre wine. But it wasn’t.

2024 Grateful 34: Be proud, be sound, behave

Passing through Glengariff in Co. Cork recently, we stopped for a gander before heading over Healy Pass into Co. Kerry. Wandering through the very colourful

Full rainbow against a grey, cloudy sky, over a garden of green trees

2024 Grateful 35: Apomakrysmenophobia

Apomakrysmenophobia. How would you even go about pronouncing it? Apo-ma-krys-menophobia? Apom-a-krys-menophobia? Apom-ak-rys-menophobia? Having failed to find any guidance online, I’m going with #3. I’m having

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