Rockaway, Nov 7th, 2024 Yeats, calling out from the grave, through a battered copy of ‘Soundings’, a memory scratching its way to the surface,  1990 something and teenage me wondering…

Rockaway Park, NY – November 4th, 2024 I vote because I have a little girl. I want her to live in a sane and sustainable society. A society where our…

October 23rd, 2024 – Anywhere, USA  Four outraged citizens sitting on a bench opposite a pile of horse shit. Their dogs, their doggie bags and doggie accessories at hand.”I called…

Photo by Patrick Glennon, Scratcher Sessions, NYC, Oct 6th, 2024   Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 Hurricane Milton bearing down on Florida. Israeli attacks on Northern Gaza/ Lebanon. Speculation of further…

Train from Prague to Olomouc, September 23rd, 2024 Israel and Hezbollah. Election polls. Gaza. Sudan. Climate change. There’s so much news. Reading it from Central Europe, itself so rich in…

Train from St. Gallen, Switzerland to Munich, Germany September 19th, 2024 There are many ways to live. I left off wishing that magic was real. I pick up again believing…

Somewhere between JFK and Zurich, September 11th, 2024 “I’m on a plane, I can’t complain” Nirvana ( name the song without checking for bonus respect) On my airplane seat screen…

JFK airport, Sept 11th, 2024 Still at the Music. Thanks Ian Whitty for this photo from what was my first ever USA tour in April 2004. Photo was in Cambridge…

Cork, Friday Aug 2nd, 2024 My lovely father died Sunday. We were all with him at home. He made things easier for us from the moment we were born till…