Category: Thoughts
Another year around the sun
I had a really delightful birthday scattered with laughs, beautiful walks, thoughtful gifts, delicious food, and a glorious sunset. Thanks to all of you for your kind words and well wishes. Here’s a silly self portrait I made to mark the occasion
Big Night – A tale of culinary creativity
Many moons ago, my dad and I watched a beautiful film called Big Night, which has this remarkable food dish called Timpano as it’s centrepiece. Essentially a massive multi-layered baked pasta drum. We were so taken with it, we tried to make it together one night back then with my friend Jakob, and it was […]
Serge Protector: Je T’aime…Moi Non Plus
Spotted in a shop front in Dublin’s city centre. Presumably it will protect us from surges of untoward advances from Serge. From 8 potential Serges even.
every day I have the blues
It would have been my father’s 77th birthday today. He is gone almost 10 years now. I wrote this piece after BB King passed away and it is as much about my dad as it is about him. When I was a kid we listened to a lot of music in my house. My dad […]
A year of creative thought
This online journal of creative musings is a year old. Did I hit the creative bullseye with it? Maybe not. Did it give me a place to share my ideas and inspirations? Definitely. A creative failure is a successful creation, or somesuch. I’m going to keep going with it. Will you come along with me?
DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL JUDGING
For the past two weeks I have had the absolute pleasure and honour of being a judge for the Dublin Fringe Festival awards. Having written and performed two previous award-nominated Fringe shows (which I have spoke about on this website previously) and a longstanding fan of Irish theatre, I was super excited to see the […]
