I'm in Mad Writer mode lately. Churning out a lot of my own memoir about my first year in Toronto. A year in which so very much happened, much of it kept hidden and secret. For very good reasons. Held in a locked closet in my mind for fifty six years. I'm very glad I have such a memory for detail and notice, through the Sibling Zooms every Sunday that we all share that ability.
Along with that I have the online writing workshops I'm facilitating. We are all missing the live ones, and these real enthusiasts are producing wonderful work. Which I am critiquing. Which takes oodles of time as well.
I've missed writing here which I will try and rectify but sometimes I just want to throw the keyboard against the wall and do something utterly different.
I love the goings on in Ireland at the moment with the Russian navy off the coast of West Cork.
Daughter sent me this earlier on. I sometimes forget how the country of my birth has such marvelous humour.
Listening to Irish radio this morning they had a CNN reporter who was on location in West Cork. The reporter was a Kerryman who is based in America. At the end of the discussion about the fisherman taking ownership of standing down Russia (ha) the host of the show then said something like.."C'mere to me now. You're among your own here so I'm gonna ask you what everyone in Ireland really wants to know....did you get paid to come home and visit your Mammy?"
In the fullness of time I really, really look forward to reading your memoir.
ReplyDeleteHumour rarely goes astray does it?
I wonder if your memoir will be published, online or hardcopy. I am sure it would make interesting reading.
ReplyDeleteWriting memoirs sounds good. For whom are you writing?
ReplyDeleteI have fond memories of my two visits to the ROI. Hospitality and sense of humour are two significant parts of those memories. I did have problems with the local idiom and accent but, these too were cheerfully handled by the locals in very friendly manner.
ReplyDeleteHaha! I can just imagine the Irish accent. Yes, the Irish have a great sense of humor!
ReplyDelete"Did you get paid to come home and visit your Mammy?" That's a nice personal touch. I didn't know about Russian ships off the Irish coast. Perhaps they just want to visit and kiss the Blarney Stone.
ReplyDeleteWrite, mentor, edit, repeat. Sounds wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThat was a cracker line!
I love the down home, down to earth interrogation. I hope his mammy is alive and well to be visited because, if so, he visited.
ReplyDeleteHa!
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to stop by and congratulate you on the story you posted for Words on Wednesday today! Great job.
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll be able to return to having your writing workshops in person this year.
Blimey, the Ruskies off the coast of West Cork. All very mysterious. Perhaps they want to pay their respects to St Patrick.
ReplyDeleteI had read about the Irish fishermen confronting the Russian Navy. They hadn't intended to glide back and forth close to the shore but rather to fire artillery and would damage the fisheries.
ReplyDeleteOh those Russians -- just stopping by in a gesture of friendship so easily misinterpreted by most of the rest of the world. eh?
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