Wowwwwwwweeweeee a 🌟DREAM 🌟review from Kirkus!!!!🌟🎉💕 "An unusually intriguing and poignant memoir." Have book will travel for readings, book clubs, mental health organizations! ❤️ MOMMA MAY BE MAD | Kirkus Reviews www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

A box arrived! No idea what was inside! Opened the box &....cried. Pinching myself. Thank you @MadvillePub ❤️❤️❤️ Years of living and healing and writing. My story, a story, maybe you will connect in your story. Pre-order: madvillepublishing.com/product/momm...

These words from Donal Ryan about my forthcoming memoir MOMMA MAY BE MAD? Well, yes, happy tears and also, must mind myself so that my head doesn't swell so I can't walk out the door this morning. October 2025 Pre-order here ❤️❤️❤️ madvillepublishing.com/product/momm...

I wasn't expecting RTÉ radio to follow up my reading with Sinéad O'Connor and Willie Nelson's rendition of "Don't Give Up" (Kate Bush) but I know of no greater honor. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I've never been so thrilled to be the lone American in this lineup of luminary Limerick writers ☘️🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪

Early morning dog walk.

Horses, near and far

Beannachtai Lá Féile Bríde 🏵️🐑🌱🇮🇪 Imbolc Shona Daoibh! Happy St. Brigid's Day! Happy Imbolc! My St. Brigid's cross, an atypical pattern, was woven by an old man I met on Inis Mór, one of the Aran Islands.

Snoweye

My dog's first ❄️.

Look at the beautiful poster for University of Limerick's Creative Writing Festival! Tá sé go hálainn!! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 What a thrill to see my name in the mix!

Proud Mom! 🎶🎸 My son's band's album (as he says, technically 3 albums)! 29 songs that he wrote and produced! Give it a spin. He's been working damn hard on the production & perfecting. A little bit emo, shoe gaze, post punk, experimental. So proud of him!!! riduckulous.bandcamp.com/album/shelte...

More of this in 2025! Not sure about you, but 2024 pretty much kicked my ass (rotten floor joist, shoulder, hamstring, heart). Grâ mór, mo chairde! ❤️❤️❤️ Courage, creativity, compassion. Alpaca, Dingle, Ireland Oct 2024

My New Year's Eve date, Echo the Appaloosa ❤️🎉🎊🥂 So much better than doomscrolling Bumble!

The company I keep! How lucky am I to be invited to be part of this festival at University of Limerick! 🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️

At the library in the woods.

Feeling cheery sad sigh not sure but hoping for a spot of joy.

MFA Application deadline is February 1st! Fully-funded! www.gcsu.edu/artsandscien...

Winter afternoon

It shouldn’t be ignored that Kash Patel chose to plead the Fifth in response to a grand jury subpoena over the Mar-a-Lago classified documents. He only testified, involuntarily, after being granted immunity. Think about that. Trump’s FBI nominee pled the Fifth in response to a DOJ subpoena.

Today. Also, puzzling out a poem in progress.

Evening chill

Leavings

Thanksgiving Eve

Yesterday, my student showed up to a conference as a fox on the beach and I was 100% okay with that. 🦊

My contributor copy arrived today!!! 🎶🎶🎶 Wild and wonderful to see my poem in between all the other 112! And thanks again to Kristie Frederick Daugherty for asking me to be part of this tremendous chorus! On sale December 3rd! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777808...

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Forest bauble.

My latest essay, "Lapsed Catholic" in Fourth Genre. First 2 pgs. Catholicism, Flannery O'Connor, cathedrals of time & space, faith in small revelations. Also, a very weird formal confession that went sideways. Lol. msupress.org/journals/fou...

He's the bestest of the best.

Just a happy pic of some of the books in my office. 📚📚

Early morning bliss. My forthcoming memoir, Momma May Be Mad, is, in part, the story of how horses kept me alive during the darkest years of my life.

Autumn. Tall and resolute.

Grá mór writer 🦋. Reposting my essay here, by way of introduction, on learning Gaeilge, InisOírr, & the west of Ireland. "This is an unruly liminal place where both the world and I are sinking and rising, disappearing and reappearing, gathering and releasing." panoramajournal.org/war-peace-inis…

Thrilled to be part of this forthcoming anthology as 1 of the poets! Thanks Kristie Frederick Daugherty for including me with 112 incredible poets! parade.com/books/best-r...

Small perfect happy gifts.

My best boyo.

Grá mór, a chairde! Books Essays Palaver 📚 Momma May Be Mad: A Memoir (forthcoming 2025), Necessary Lies, & Remember To Forget Me. NYer↪️GA but ❤️ ↪️ Luimneach🇮🇪 I am Ireland obsessed! Writing my way forward, though often doubling back.