I use this blog as a place keeper for the bits and pieces of my thinking...a sorter out.

I took part in a Bloomsday celebration in June...I keep calling it Bloomsberry...I was asked for a brief biography:

Pat does have some claim to a vein of Irish blood. However when she made good on that claim, she understood the advice of her four foot-five Irish grandmother who had sat in the corner of the living room for all of her growing up and had made sense of the world for her. “Stay in the background and push.”


She met a young man from her grandmother’s hometown of Castle Rock, Northern Ireland - near the Giant’s Causeway - and announced with pride that her great aunts were the postmistresses of said town carrying on a three-generation tradition.

His reply: Ah yes- those are the two elderly ladies who look into people’s windows with telescopes…we all know them!

Pat returned to Canada and became a teacher happily staying in the background and pushing.