When I was a little girl of 10 or so and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up I said ‘ teacher’ or ‘singer’ or ‘lolly shop owner’ or ‘ writer’. I’m now over 40 and all of those things have wound their way into my life in some…
Category: Writing
How writing a regular column has changed my life
Over the last couple of weeks in spare moments I’ve been making an inventory of my Catholic Weekly columns, entitled Pitter Patter. I started writing it when I was five months pregnant with my first child at the suggestion of the then-managing editor, Kerry Myers. That little bean on the ultrasound imaging machine I described…
My year of mercy (and the best posts from 2016)
This time last year I was relieved for having got through Christmas and nervous about getting through the remainding weeks of the school holidays. I was tired, physically and existentially fragile, and wrote about how for me, the Year of Mercy which Pope Francis had opened might just be about showing myself some mercy. I wasn’t…
It’s nice to be missed
I’ve had a few people ask me what’s happened to my Catholic Weekly column. I took a break for several weeks when I was feeling overwhelmed with general life stuff, but wrote one last week which will probably be in this Sunday’s issue of May 15. It’s on gift ideas for First Holy Communicants or…
