Thanks so much for having me on your blog.Reinventing the Wheelis another nonfiction picture book biography that’s dear to me, likeListen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion,because it shines a light on a fabulous invention for wheelchair users by Irish sisters, Ailbhe (pron...
[…] For they openly profess, not to lay the Foundation of an English, Scotch, Irish, Popish, or Protestant Philosophy; but a Philosophy of Mankind.Footnote99According to Sprat, then, the Royal Society, was committed to a new natural philosophy which examined nature empirically and methodically...
Me: “Was there ever a moment, maybe after Bill & Ted, when people started reacting differently to you and you realised your life had changed?” Him: “Um, no.” Me: “Really?” Him: “No.”) What this distancing tactic might lack in conversational intimacy it makes up ...
The Irish have a lovely saying “The shape of you” as in “I like the shape of you” It’s a colloquialism that speaks to the way we present ourselves. I love it because it talks of our “shape” perhaps our physical form, but also our attitude, our passion, our preparation, and ...
her Irish boyfriend Paul, and another woman friend of hers from college in Boston, Trish.I didn’t get to meet either of them. We stopped back at Casey’s place to pick up Diana’sthings & Diana & I were on the road by 10:30-11am or so. Texas hadn’t changed muchsince June, ...
When the drop is inside the sense is outside — Irish Proverbs 49 Only once we have the explanation can we make the prediction. — Naval Ravikant 43 Short Make Sense Quotes A good explanation, first and foremost, is testable or falsifiable. — Naval Ravikant The prediction comes after th...
Even though I’d never encountered this poem before, even when reading it at the time ― within the context of this strange new reality at the beginning of the pandemic ― I also knew that I loved it differently than I would have even a month earlier. ...
000 Irishmen would subsequently die on the Western Front in the service of the British Army. Dunne would not die in Flanders; a different fate awaited him. He would be among the soldiers who happened to be home on furlough in Dublin in April 1916—a significant date in Irish history. In...
“The Scottish sports media has never been influenced by Rangers’* PR operation. That’s what you wanted me to say isn’t it Jim? Let me know if you need anything else.” Random inflammatory mention of “Irish Irishman Phil MacChipOnHisShoulder.” “We are only here to talk about the...
Everyone's body is shaped differently. To get a perfect fit, you sometimes have to get your clothes changed. But by using 3D scanning technology, all the clothes you buy will fit your body perfectly. Some companies scan(扫描)your body using High-tech to get the real sizes, s...