Day 11. The Oubliette in the Bloody Chamber
Scott and I drove to Leap today, a surprisingly short distance away (about an hour and 15 minutes). It's a pretty amazing place. As usual...
Day 10. Death and the Café
Today was a veritable cornucopia of meetings and interactions - such a change from my hermit-like August to date! I started off by...
Day 9. Writing about witches and making a date with an elemental.
Today I was absolutely determined to stay on the page. I know if this month goes by and I've written less than I hoped I'll be...
Day 8. A long drive home..
Have mercy! I'm so tired after a long drive home! Did manage another walk on the seafront, this time in blustering cold weather. (The...
Day 7. Sea, sand...and ruins of course!
Drove to Ballyheigue and had an IDYLLIC afternoon with Siobhan, photographing Ballyheigue Castle and walking on the strand. The remains...
Day 6. In the pink.
A quieter day, after the shenanigans of yesterday. A bit of procrastination crept in last night, as I watched the first three episodes of...
Day 5. Spooky adventures at the Abbey of the Black Hag...
It was most odd. I spent a (very) wet afternoon trying to track down the Abbey of the Black Hag (or St. Katherine's medieval abbey) in...
Day 4. Gothic suburbia
Finally finished a shamefully overdue chapter for what promises to be an excelled edited collection, Imagining Irish Suburbia, edited by...
Day 3. Devils and graveyards
Photographed two more sites today - Ballinagarde House, Ballyneety, site of a famous apparition of the Devil, and the beautiful and...
Day 2. Chapter drafts, website design and making sushi...
This morning I sat down and tried to journal away some of the shadows lurking at the back of my mind. The most outstanding of these was...
