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Have you seen the Lilith Fair documentary?
Fun, feminism and oh-so-much late 90s nostlagia.
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A Nollaig na mBan Mother Nourishment Circle
My buddy Maeve is a special kind of human. Warm, giving, generous and just so authentically herself. I recently heard the phrase “We don’t make friends, we recognize them” and this was very much my experience meeting Maeve. By day, she heads up Music Connects, an amazing organisation who
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Everything I've been reading on Hamnet
I went to see Hamnet last week with some mama friends and I've been thinking and reading about it ever since. The new film from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao, it's a beautiful and brilliant adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2000 book of the same name,
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Delightful distractions #1: How to make homemade natural scented candles
Starting a new mini series sharing some fun things to do, read and watch this winter, kicking off with this DIY candle how-to, first published in our DIY series for Irish Country Magazine. First things first: I am not buying that this is the ideal time to be hyper productive
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Link love: January
A few bits that have caught my eyes and ears over the past few weeks. Listening to Semisonic's Dan Wilson discussing Closing Time on Song Exploder led me down a delightful internet rabbit hole that included this brilliant compilation of advice – ostensibly aimed at songwriters, but there are
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Link love
"When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement." - Mary Oliver (1935-2019) Tearing up over this lovely post on Mary Oliver, which includes a rare recording of her reading Wild Geese. The Story of Marvel’s first Queer
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The Nerd Parent's Guide to Life with a Newborn
I jotted down the basic skeleton of this piece back when Ari was around six weeks old. These tools, tips and techie bits helped us out a lot in those bleary early days, so I thought I'd share them as I have quite a few new or or
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A Surprise Birthday Picnic in Belem
(I feel like I'm going to gush so much about this lovely experience that I should point out that this post is in no way sponsored and that nothing was comp-ed). For Ben's birthday this year, I thought it would be fun to try and find
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Favourite Pregnancy & Labour reads
Years of working in magazines have turned me into a total research nerd. Whenever a new topic enters my life, I really enjoy diving in and learning as much as I can about it, and pregnancy and imminent baby life has been no different. Like with marriage, there is so
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Link love: January
Well, we've almost made it though January! I've stumbled across some pretty nice internet recently, so thought I'd share.... "Good journalism about good things": Eager to check out Positive News magazine. A couple of new (-ish or new to me) podcasts to
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Practical Magic | The rise of modern day witchcraft
A few months ago, my friend El and I went on a gorgeous yoga retreat with Liz in a cabin in Wicklow. There were hikes in nature, chats by the fire, nutritious, delicious food and, sitting on the mantlepiece, a deck of tarot cards. We giggled like teenagers as we
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7 handy tech tools for freelancers
The irony of working for yourself is that with the incredible amount of flexibility you get comes a very real need for a lot of structure and organisation. There is no pre-built system or process for you to slot into, you have to build it yourself and find smart ways