I’m lighting a candle for my aunt, who was diagnosed with cancer about three months ago. She slipped into a coma this evening and doctors do not expect her to wake up anymore. I wish to send her light and love. I also wish to send my uncle and cousins strength and courage and to [...]
Do you remember what it felt like the first time you walked into your home? Before you even moved there, the first time you entered it during a viewing or so? Did you feel like the house was welcoming you? That you stepped into a home instead of a house?
Last year around this time, Marc [...]
Sometimes I wonder what it will be like when I grow old. What the world will be like. What I will be like. I hope I’ll be one of those eccentric ladies who keep having fun until their last breath, who don’t let the fact that they’re 90 get in the way of enjoying life.
My [...]
Every year one of the touring groups of Riverdance retuns to Dublin for the summer. Yesterday I finally got to see them in the Gaiety Theatre. Built in 1871, it’s still a beautiful theatre with a very special atmosphere.
The show was amazing, I had goose bumps most of the time. The music, the dancing, the [...]
Like I said, I never really enjoyed dancing. I suspected it could be fun, if you have a great sense of rhythm, but as I lacked it, dancing was just not something I’d get a lot of joy out of. I was too busy worrying about how it would look and what other people (read: [...]
Seven weeks ago I went offline. It wasn’t a conscious decision, but it happened. So much was going on, both wonderfull stuff and very painfull stuff, and I needed all my energy do deal with those things. Now I feel like a submarine that has been on the bottom of the ocean for a while, [...]
