A friend asked me recently if there was a place where the pieces that I write might be found assembled…
Gifts of light
It’s mid December, and the duties of a long, demanding semester have finally come to an end. I’m sitting quietly…
Back to school: curriculum matters
The sun is shining in an almost cloudless blue sky here in Northern Ireland on the day when many children,…
Morning Light
Not long after lock-down began here in Northern Ireland, I was chatting with my friend Jonathan Rea, Creative Chief Executive…
There’s a river that flows …
We have lived close to a little river for over ten years. It’s called the Kells Water. We have often…
This day our daily bread
It’s hard to know what day it is currently. Many of the routines that differentiated our Mondays from our Tuesdays,…
Schooling and Testing
This morning one of our current educational hunches was confirmed: all practical GCSE and A level examinations have been cancelled.…
Silver-Lining Blessing
This is a photograph of our family having dinner together one evening earlier this week. It was a happy occasion…
The Light shines in the darkness
This was a Christmas like no other in our family, for on Christmas Eve my much-loved maternal Grandmother, the ‘adopted’…
“More than a badger”
‘Tis the season of the end-of-semester deadline, of the darker morning, and the even darker evening. For some of us…
