Whenever I need a quick pick me up I glance at this photograph of my niece Alaina alongside an Emu she befriended while on holiday in Australia. At each viewing, I am struck by the two vastly different moods displayed. My niece nonchalant, as if posing with the creature is an everyday occurrence and theContinue reading “Fearless”
Author Archives: Kathy Simmons
Summers Remembered
“Last night I had a pleasant dream I woke up with a smile. I dreamt that I was back again in dear old Erin’s Isle” (Lovely Leitrim) “Now this looks interesting!” pondered my father a hint of excitement in his voice as he sat studying the Irish paper. It was the summer of 1974 andContinue reading “Summers Remembered”
The Wild Atlantic Way
Whisked Away
If there was a word that existed to describe the opposite of a hoarder, that would describe my mother.
Fallen Leaves
Fall leaves fall, die flowers away, Lengthen night and shorten day, Every leaf speaks bliss to me, Fluttering from the Autumn tree… Emily Jane Bronte
Autumn in Connecticut
“And all at once, summer collapsed into Fall.” Oscar Wilde
Birds on a Wire
We wait for the perfect time, missing it entirely..
Love Letter to Ireland – the Gift of My Mother
A tribute to my mother
Memories of a Fifth Floor Walk up
You never forget your first NYC apartment…
Into the Woods
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” – John Muir
Shangri-La 