Learning From a Swarm of Bees

A few weeks ago I hurried into my bedroom after hearing a loud humming sound, assuming that my heater had broken or a wire had exploded or something. What met me instead (and I’m not sure if it was better or worse than a potential faulty wire) was a GIANT swarm of bees hovering outside

Let’s Talk About Periods

This week I read a new phrase that I had never heard before; Period Positivity. As someone who has a period every month (thanks, Mother Nature), I was instantly intrigued and decided to look it up. What started off as ten seconds of throwaway curiosity soon opened my eyes to the fact that I am

Things To Do In Quarantine (That Aren’t About Being Your Best Productive Self)

                         I’ve got a new social media rule in my life. Whenever I see a peppy influencer encouraging me to write a novel or learn a new skill/language/crafting technique during quarantine, they’re instantly unfollowed. Sometimes blocked. Reported if it’s a particularly bad day. I

Quarantine

                            Today, Monday 23rd March 2020, marks day 7 for me of being in quarantine mode, in a nationwide bid to slow the rapid spread of the covid-19 virus. Quarantine for me means limited movement and ventures outside due to living with

Mo

When you find a stray cat and name her Moses, it’s because you don’t expect her to stick around in your life for too long. With a name as silly as Moses, you assume that this stray cat is just some tiny little creature that will hang around in your back garden for a little

Staying Sane While The World Is On Fire

                            I like to think of myself as a pretty calm and collected person. I’m the kind of person who can hear a terrible story or read an awful news article and empathise, but not dwell. I do yoga and I practise

The Best Books of 2019

                               In 2019, I set myself the task of reading at least 50 books in the year. Did I achieve this? Absolutely not. But I read 30, so I’m not totally mad at myself. As has become a bit of a

Thoughts on Loneliness

                             This week, I started a book named The Opposite of Loneliness, by Marina Keegan, a former Yale student whose prose and essays were organised together in a book following her tragic death just after graduation. In one of these essays, which

24 Years Of Learning

                                       On the 11th November 1995, on what I hear was a particularly stormy night, my mother decided to push me out of her belly and into the world. Thanks for that, Mam! What has followed since,

It’s Like We Have So Much, But it Feels Like So Little

                                                                                         Source: irishpost.com I feel as though no one ever prepared us for