Thoughts
All Of This For Beauty
Andrea’s Kitchen, Piove di Sacco, Italy – November 7th, 2017 They tell me it didn’t rain in the North of Italy for sixty days. Until I arrived. It has been…
Read MoreCome on Tour with Me
JFK International Airport, Terminal 4 – Saturday, November 4th, 7:22am I’m sitting in a brightly lit cafe. Trying to pry my eyes open with a watery coffee. I am putting…
Read MoreIt’s Good to be Back in Your Town
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017 – Brooklyn I’m back in Brooklyn. The sun is shining. Hector is yelling across the street to someone on the other side. Out of laziness more…
Read MoreI Should Have Been Canadian
In the van close to Derry City, Tuesday September 19th, 2017 Terra Lightfoot in the stereo. We didn’t find Murder Hole beach, despite the poetic directions of left at…
Read MoreEvery Day’s a School Day
In the van somewhere in Monaghan, September 18th, 2017 ‘Artificial Lake’ has been included on RTE Radio 1’s recommended playlist. Blue and White religion book skies. Scruffy fields. Sheep with…
Read MoreThank you – That was fun!
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Monday June 12th, 8am. Air quality warning from 10am. What precisely are you supposed to do during an air quality warning? Take a deep breath…
Read MoreFour bands, a ferry and a fort.
June 9th, 2017 “The Dog that didn’t bark“. “A pig’s breakfast”. The BBC are all over the animal metaphors this morning. Any news? Lordy. The DUP? Lordy, is right. …
Read MoreA Singer in a Bookshop.
June 2nd, 2017 Yesterday I wanted to post a bunch of expletives. I still do. You know things are truly awful when the tabloids display a greater grasp of science…
Read MoreThe Things People Tell Us.
The things people tell us. The things people don’t tell us. 11 years old Patrick took his cousin’s dog for a walk. Too loose on a faraway leash, the…
Read MoreEaster Rambling
“All your crying don’t do no good, Come on up the the house, Come down off the cross, We can use the wood, You gotta come on up to the house.…
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