August, 2012

I had a family wedding  last weekend so my thoughts as I write are still with the impact of the personal. Any wedding carries an emotional wallop, and a family wedding carries a double wallop. Which makes me realize how for many people, life in its entirety is lived at the personal, family level.  In […]

I had a family wedding  last weekend so my thoughts as I write are still with the impact of the personal. Any wedding carries an emotional wallop, and a family wedding carries a double wallop. Which makes me realize how for many people, life in its entirety is lived at the personal, family level.  In […]

Sometimes I wish I’d done economics.  Then I’d be like Fintan O’Toole – and so many other people – who are able to see their way through the financial/economic undergrowth that the present recession has plunged us into.  Fintan’s writing in the Irish Times  this morning and he’s firing on all moral cylinders, criticising the […]

Sometimes I wish I’d done economics.  Then I’d be like Fintan O’Toole – and so many other people – who are able to see their way through the financial/economic undergrowth that the present recession has plunged us into.  Fintan’s writing in the Irish Times  this morning and he’s firing on all moral cylinders, criticising the […]

I was at a family wedding in England over the weekend and I got talking to the bouncer, I mean doorman. Interesting. He was called…let’s say Malcolm and he had tattoos everywhere, notably on his head (“Bit painful getting the one on the head done, but worth it. I think they look attractive”). Malcolm does […]

I was at a family wedding in England over the weekend and I got talking to the bouncer, I mean doorman. Interesting. He was called…let’s say Malcolm and he had tattoos everywhere, notably on his head (“Bit painful getting the one on the head done, but worth it. I think they look attractive”). Malcolm does […]