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  • Flourish 2020

    Flourish 2020

    It’s theme word time. This year, I feel like December has snuck up on me. We’re halfway through and I am not prepared to end my year with any forward looking anything. I can barely register what’s on today’s To Do list. Despite that, this tradition needs to continue. So for the past week, I’ve…

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  • Revisiting Anam Cara

    Twelve years ago, Tod & I visited Anam Cara for a poetry workshop given by my sister, Jenny Hill, and Jack McGuigan. (My main memory of that trip is memorialised in this poem.) When I realised that we’d be in the area this year for the European Juggling Convention in Millstreet, of course we had…

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  • I am a Novelist

    Book-length fiction completed.

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  • Handy phrases for vegetarians, near-vegetarians, and picky eaters in Japan

    How to get what you want to eat.

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  • Kangaroos by Ogden Nash

    The kangaroo can jump incredible. He has to jump, because he’s edible. I could not eat a kangaroo, But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo meringues. (Ogden Nash wrote this to be read along with Saint-Saens’ The Carnival of Animals – Kangaroos.)

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  • At the Library

  • A riddle

    The answer is so true

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  • Better Life, Olive Crown

  • Sorn

  • Bread advertisement

    Who says placement marketing is a new invention?

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