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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…
Read MoreDolphins and Butterflies – Highways and Fishing Knives
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…
Read MorePeople and Places: Grief, Sister Michael, Buses, Family and Friends
Photo: Michael John McCarthy, Siobhan McSweeney and myself outside Green Note, London Cork to Dublin train, September 30th, 2024 Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Yemen and Gaza. Hurricane Helene. Harris and…
Read MoreCosmonauts also walk their Dogs
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…
Read MoreA German stilt walker, a Kuwaiti investment banker and a Swiss wood carver walk into a bar…
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…
Read MoreHello from Switzerland
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…
Read MoreStill at the Music
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…
Read MoreR.I.P. Dad – US gigs resume August 11th in Worcester
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…
Read MoreUS GIGS POSTPONED – Sad news
Cork, July 23rd, 2024 Just a brief note to let you know my upcoming US gigs are on hold till further notice. My father was diagnosed with mesothelioma in February.…
Read MoreI Spy In My Imagination
Rockaway Park, May 2nd, 2024 As the Q22 bus pulls away from the bus stop, the engine and the road combine to make a low bass F note just…
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