by helenmcnulty | May 6, 2022 | Audio Recording, Stories for Children, writing about being a mother
Butterflutterfly by Helen McNulty...
by helenmcnulty | May 6, 2022 | Drawings, Writing, writing about being a mother
First Portrait I couldn’t move, but I could draw. I had a green pen, almost all the ink was gone. It was scraping along the little book I had set aside to put the notes of what it was to be mummy for the first time. The book was small. I forgot that my...
by helenmcnulty | Aug 10, 2021 | Writing, writing about being a mother, writing about family
My daughter has taken to asking this question to me on numerous occasions in a day. It is my favourite question. Yesterday, I had a tricky mood day, I was feeling very tired and not in any form of gratitude thinking. In the evening, Venus (my girl) asked me the Why...
by helenmcnulty | May 14, 2021 | Painting, writing about being a mother
Venus Sleeping | 2020 | Watercolour on Paper | 10 x 14cm — – Bushwhacking. —— —— 1/ Even the bracken / bricks it / in this bog. / / Tiny tufts of flax / Bow down the road / Plaques blaze the old names of townlands / Like gravestones. / / Do you remember /...
by helenmcnulty | Sep 30, 2020 | Songs, Storytelling, Writing, writing about being a mother, writing about family
Picking and then eating and cooking apples and blackberries is what the whole year leads up to.Mean Fhomhair, middle harvest or middle autumn is the Irish word for September.It is always my most prolific month of the year, I always try harder in September, maybe the...
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