(Ballycastle beach, 20/6/20) Exactly seven years ago the first proper blog post on emeraldscribe was published. It seems a lifetime ago, and yet it is quite apt and timely […]
Just over three months ago today, the world as we knew it ended for me personally, and within a couple of weeks, most of you too. I flew home from […]
HERE’S AN over 100-year-old Irish oak chair I had the priviledge of restoring this past week or so of further pandemic lockdown in Northern Ireland. It was thrown out for […]
EXACTLY two years ago last night, I had the now infamous motorcycle accident in Redding, Northern California, where I was blessed to be living at the time. I shared very […]
SO my midweek post became a Good Friday post. Sorry about that. My heart feels heavy today and my body and mind are quite tired. But I’m not complaining. It’s a blessing […]
TODAY’S POST almost hasn’t happened. But I decided to keep the discipline and fulfill what I wrote I would last time, of posting again “on Sunday”. One of the good […]
Just a few thoughts for tonight. I’ve been thinking since a few weeks ago about a talk I heard at a Church recently in Northern Ireland. The crux of it […]
Sixteen weeks on from the Redding accident I decided to vulnerably share about in April, the sun is gratefully able to be felt once again on my skin. Time can […]
It’s true a picture is worth a thousand words. Many people may not have believed the post I shared on 2nd May, sharing a tiny 10% snippet of what happened […]
Hot off the heals of my last post about Eureka, USA, I am tonight remembering this time last year, when I was blessed to be in Prague, Czech Republic, in […]
AFTER a semi-conscious break from posting anything on social media in recent months, I felt to write a wee random blog article this week. I’ve just had a quietly […]
THIS very afternoon just two weeks ago I went round to pray for a local father figure, someone I respect and cared for very much, a real rock solid background […]
I took an intentional break from blogging and social media activity for the past 6 weeks, and may do so again during lent if not beyond, but this past week […]
THIS DAY in 1963 saw the dark departure from this earth of a writer of incredible latent talent and ability, C.S. Lewis, who also happens to have been from the […]
————————————————————————————————————– I wrote this article summer 2013, and am reminded of it today, after a church service I attended in Northern Ireland which brought me close to tears with gratitude […]
