Being Kind to Your Inner Childby Giselle Marrinan, Author of ‘Another Zero’. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing”George Bernard Shaw No matter what age we are, there is a child in all of us. I liken us to the Russian Matryoshka doll. These are the wooden…
‘Surviving and Thriving amidst COVID-19’ By Mairead Carroll “Allow yourself to sit with your deepest hidden emotions, become friends with the shadow part of you. Sit under the moon and stars and fall back in love with yourself again like you did when you were three, riding wild with a carefree ease. Write…
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it” J.M Barrie – Peter Pan Consider this: how has governmental imposed self-isolation affected you? If, you were already struggling before this pandemic, has the ‘lockdown’ clipped your wings even more? Did it necessitate a paradigm shift? When we…
Life Coaching InsightsAnother Zero: Bring the Joy Back into Your Lifeby Giselle Marrinan Book Review by Dr. Phil Noone, Senior Reviewer, The Book Hub Publishing Group. Introduction I first read this book in 2018, following its publication by Book Hub Publishing and was fascinated by its insightfulness into the challenges of our lives and how…
‘My Gown Rests in its Bag’ by Doireann O’ Mahony @OMahonyDoireann My gown rests in its bag under the desk in the Four Courts. Waiting to be worn again. As I gathered up my papers and left the Law Library that evening in early March, I had no idea what was to unfold over the…
Most of us know the phrase, Carpe Diem (seize the day), but how many of us know the second part? Until recently, I didn’t. …………. “trusting as little as possible in the next one,” What does the second part of the phrase mean for us? Sounds ominous! Since we are now firmly in the grip…
From the Children’s Book, ‘Hugh and the Manatee’ by Dr. Mary Helen Hensley “The early morning rays of a late summer sun peeked through the curtains of Hugh Hanson’s corner bedroom at No. 2 Violet Hill Road. Hugh blinked at the light, rubbed his bleary eyes and squeaked out a loud yawn, just before his…
Quieting the Mind –The Journey Within by Giselle Marrinan “My sense is, wherever you are, and whatever your religious orientation or lack of it, just go to silence whether it’s by taking a walk or going into a retreat house is like going into a hospital for the soul” – Pico Iyer ‘A hospital for…
Writing A Critical Appraisal of “SPORT” by Paul Durcan#LeavingCert2020Writing A Critical Appraisal of the poem, “SPORT” by Paul Durcan Hi, I’m Renée Sigel and I’m editor and publisher of the arts journal Literati Magazine. Niall very kindly invited me to contribute to your learning guides on poetry and I’d like to chat to you about…
We’re currently working on a Selected Works for poet John Ennis scheduled for release later this summer. Here’s a poem from the volume chosen by our @drniallmc Goldcrest Falling by John Ennis “In our times, birds fall down hardly noticed in the world. The most diminutive of Irish birds, their wingbars gone palewith underparts of…