Storytelling that rises up from deep within my core. Join me here for my thoughts, written, visual, audio, and combined. I'm an Irish Canadian single mamaí with a Creative Writing MFA (2026) and MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (2021).
I'm a writer, photographer, and Irish-Canadian mamaí with a Creative Writing MFA (2026) and an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (2021). Currently writing a book on bogs, Iron Age bog people, and planetary preservation.
I am an incurable memoir addict. I love reading it, teaching it, and writing it. Here you will find stories from a life, but you will also learn how to write it, and how memoir can be transformative beyond the page.
Most of what I post here is typed on one of my many old manual typewriters or composed on an AlphaSmart Neo. Almost all of my photos are taken with a Sony DSC-H1. I do not send or read direct messages on Substack.
A global top 100 life writing publication plus the host of acclaimed memoir and expressive writing group programmes
Mainly a photography journal. And some musings connecting the dots between photos and everyday life.