Archive
Full Post List
Dec 2, 2024: Street View A few years ago, my grandmother passed away, and I remember browsing Google Maps a few days after her funeral to see if I could find her immortalised …
Nov 18, 2024: Life-long friends* At the airport recently, before boarding a flight to Brussels, I overheard a conversation between friends sitting at the next table. They were …
Nov 17, 2024: Oviedo on Film The week before last, my husband and I went to Oviedo in Spain to attend our friend’s wedding, and of course, I took along my film camera to …
Nov 16, 2024: Photographing People Growing up, my grandfather, who is the sole reason I take photos, used every family event as an opportunity to line his grandchildren up from youngest …
Nov 6, 2024: I Love Us. On Wednesdays, I drive my husband across the city to attend a tutoring session with one of his students at their house. Oftentimes, I park the car and …
Oct 16, 2024: Loneliness and Connection During Mental Health Awareness Month, which runs through October, there is a Mindful Minute Challenge run at work that gives €Job& employees a …
Oct 9, 2024: ‘Harrington’s are here!’ We got a surprise last week when an article appeared in the local newspaper, the Echo, ‘Cork city factory had its own fire brigade’ mentioning our …
Oct 4, 2024: An Irishman in Al Khobar Last week, we called round to some friends house whom we collectively as a group all hadn’t caught up with each other for almost three years, …
Sep 27, 2024: Debs I was on a walk with my husband the other night, and we started a conversation about school debs. As we were chatting, it dawned on me that this month …
Sep 25, 2024: Job rotation A job rotation I’ve been doing for the past few months is coming to an end this Friday. It’s been a total departure from what I had been …
Sep 24, 2024: 'Cool older brother' I was standing outside Cypress Avenue on Caroline Street with my husband, brothers, and friend after our exit from a gig we had all attended when my …
Sep 16, 2024: Live Everyday As A Lion Today, I reminisced about the time I decided to get a tattoo following what I think was me realising that I’d wasted a lot of time procrastinating / …
Sep 4, 2024: Croatia on Film Last week, my husband and I went on holiday to Croatia for the first time, flying from Cork to Zadar. Our Croatian hairdresser had been recommending …
Aug 21, 2024: Correction of mal-positioned teeth. A friend of mine recently got braces for his “gapped teeth,” and it got me thinking about my own experience with having correction done …
Aug 14, 2024: #fuckcancer Back in the early nineties, in the estate where I grew up, three people had cancer at the same time over a period of about two years. It was a tragic …
Aug 1, 2024: Framed aerial photo In the living room of a childhood friend’s home hung a framed aerial photo of their house taken from a plane. Their detached house stood alone …
Jul 13, 2024: Sold At 5 p.m. on Friday evening, as I was just leaving work, Kate from the solicitor’s office rang to say the sale had closed on the house we’d …
Jul 5, 2024: Don't think. Just do. Watching Top Gun: Maverick a few weeks ago, there was a line of dialogue that Tom Cruise’s character uttered to himself in the cockpit of his plane …
Jul 5, 2024: Hospital trollies One of my first jobs was working as a porter in the Cork Regional Hospital, helped by my mum, who worked on the switchboard, or “Switch,” …
May 20, 2024: In-N-Out Last week, a work trip took me to San Francisco, and for the first time, I experienced the 11 hour flight in business class. Spoiler, it was …
Apr 5, 2024: Tell your mother that you love her. Listening to the Fontaines D.C. song “A Hero’s Death” the other day, and this line from the lyrics, “Tell your mother that you …
Mar 22, 2024: In the doldrums There has not been a lot of movement in our surrogacy journey in the last six months. Although, since early March, we now have embryos and it was …
Mar 22, 2024: A purple Snack, a package of BBQ Hula Hoops and a bottle of Tanora. My go-to confectioneries are a purple Snack, a package of BBQ Beef Hula Hoops, and a bottle of Tanora. I’d happily buy all if I’m passing …
Mar 1, 2024: Mum ❤️
Feb 25, 2024: I am a photographer. Last December marked the tenth year that I began posting on VSCO, a photo and video sharing website. It’s something I am extremely proud of and …
Feb 25, 2024: How Do You Like Your Coffee? Lately, I’ve enjoyed brewing filter coffee with a Hario V60 using beans from Imbibe, a roaster from Dublin that I love. The fruity and chocolaty …
Feb 24, 2024: New lens I have not been taking photos much lately, partly due to the kids, the house, and the winter weather. Spending the darker evenings indoors in front of …
Jan 26, 2024: 4th time's a charm. We have an egg donor! Back in November, a wonderful woman reached out through our agency after hearing about our bad luck in finding a donor. She …
Jan 26, 2024: Baby, Baby, House We, my husband and I, live in a small mid terrace house in the centre of a city and it’s been great place for various reasons - no need to own a …
Nov 15, 2023: New Manley I feel like there’s been a disturbance in my procrastination force lately, or maybe it’s been happening over the last few years and I’m …
Oct 21, 2023: Music to soothe an unsettled mind The past few weeks have been arduous, with work getting busier, the winter nights closing in, me not feeling well following a chest infection I had a …
Sep 15, 2023: Friday Nights at the E.S.B Sportsco This week, I was reminded of the time I played basketball as a teenager with the rest of my family at the old E.S.B Sportsco on the Curraheen Road, …
Sep 9, 2023: It felt like a breakup It has been a tough few weeks on our surrogacy journey, and last Thursday, we made a difficult but inevitable decision to end our relationship with …
Sep 9, 2023: Delayed Summer We’re experiencing some usually hot weather in Ireland this week, for September and I’m conflicted by it. On the one hand we had such a shit summer …
Sep 4, 2023: The beginning of our journey [originally posted on Medium on Jan 13, 2023] It’s 2023, a new year and one when we begin our journey to start a family through surrogacy and I am so …
Jun 18, 2023: Power of Storytelling This past week was ‘I&D Week 2023’ at my workplace. The yearly event held during Pride month showcasing talks, exhibitions and events around Inclusion …
May 22, 2023: Two men and a baby. I’d just sat down after buying a package of chocolate pretzels and three small bottles of Canadian Maple syrup from the Relay gift shop across from …
May 8, 2023: Oblivious.  Oblivious. August 28, 2022 – On our wedding anniversary we rented a punt (a long flat bottomed boat) and were gently guided along the river Stour in …
Apr 22, 2023: JD This photo was taken, on the 20th of December 2019, of John as he was about to take a photo of the entire team at work for Christmas Jumper Day. As he …
Apr 9, 2023: Carcassonne A cheap flight from Cork is always an opportunity to explore a new country / city and at the beginning of April we went to Carcassonne in Southern …
Mar 2, 2023: What’s the story? The last five weeks. There was no ribbon cutting to acknowledge the official beginning of our journey and after all the pre-planning, meetings, discussing, saving, waiting …
Jan 21, 2023: Fasten seat belt while seated When we began our journey we knew it was going to be complex — with big decisions to make, big costs involved, emotionally arduous and thats even …
Jan 16, 2023: MegaTRON I was watching a Family Guy clip recently where Peter is asked by Lois to give the nurse the birth certificate, after Meg is born. This cutaway scene …
Jan 15, 2023: Tinder Egg Back in September last year we were given access to a Canadian egg donor database following a consultation with a surrogacy agency. We had had a …
Jan 14, 2023: Latte Daddy I remember reading about the Latte Pappa’s or Latte Daddies a few years ago, a phenomenon in Nordic countries and imagined bringing my own kid to my …