The who’s who and the what’s what of shopping local this Christmas!

As Christmas draws nearer and your brain begins to fill with baubles, Christmas carols and questions about who you might blow kisses at underneath the mistletoe. Be sure to not forget to shop local for your Christmas presents. This year more than ever we need to support one another and a very simple way to do that is to add a few gifts from Irish artists or shops to your list to Santa. …

Context: This piece was written as a discussion post for a Sociology module in college. It is my response to a video called “Do schools kill creativity” by Sir Ken Robinson. I look at school and the failures I felt both then and now. who knows, it might resonant with you too. Enjoy :)

“I wish I could see what other people are doing” I ponder as I stare at my blank word document “then I could see what the right way to do this is”. I feel as though a part of me freezes when asked my opinion, whether…

I do not feel different.
I do not feel like my arms have stretched
Or that my skin has sagged.

In fact the only change I see Is the crease…

I can’t stop thinking
About how it must feel.
To kiss the tip of your tongue
Or place my hand on your knee.

Our love is malleable, Sticky, wet and…

Before her eyes had even opened she could smell it. She could almost see it through her softly shut lids, like heat rising from the hot bodies of cattle on cold winter nights. The stench of her own hair spiralled and swirled around the muggy emptiness of her bedroom. Her hair uncombed, unkempt and knotted on the crown of her head manipulated into a magpie’s nest of if, buts and comparisons fermenting there for weeks.

She wondered how long it had been since she had abandoned washing. Doused herself in foreign smells and scrubbed the domestic rural spaces of self…