Category: Reflection (page 20)

My brother emailed this to me earlier this week and I have been unable to shake the image. At the…

This morning my oldest child is facing the transfer test, joining thousands of others throughout the province who have spent…

Hospitality is the theme of the week. Noel Edmonds of Deal or No Deal fame is welcomed back into the…

My daughter told me that her cousin’s dog had eaten the New Testament. I watched her face and observed her…

My daughter asked me last Wednesday, having seen a news piece on N Korea whether or not I believed what…

Obviously without knowing it I have offended someone in my son’s school. Either that or the teachers at Kilmaine Primary…

In recent days it has become clear to me that Autumn has arrived. I was out walking the dog just…

Author Alice Sebold wrote a book called The Lovely Bones in which the narrator is a 14 year murder victim…

I wrote this piece a few years ago for a BBC broadcast, but its seems timely again, not just becasue…

I’m suckered in every time. Every time. Maybe it’s the impetuosity of the children, or their unending optimism, but they…