Lorraine CavanaghApr 15, 20222 minHoly Week: Good FridayThere are flowers along the way, yellow celandines, and the small insects of early Spring. These leave him, but the flies stay. They...
Lorraine CavanaghApr 14, 20222 minHoly Week: Maundy ThursdayThe last meal. It ends with a ritual which by its very strangeness is key to our understanding of what Holy Week is about. Jesus washes...
Lorraine CavanaghOct 18, 20224 minSome Thoughts on Solitude‘You’re never alone with a Strand’ ran the once popular ad. Today, its haunting ambiguity lingers on, inviting reflection on the...
Lorraine CavanaghOct 5, 20223 minMood of the MomentI am not usually in any kind of identifiable mood, or even frame of mind, when I sit down to write one of these blogs, or, if I am, and...
Lorraine CavanaghSep 29, 20223 minMy New Memoir: Re-building the Ruined Places - A Journey Through Childhood TraumaThe hardest thing about writing a memoir is explaining to yourself, let alone to anyone else, why you wrote it. I envy the writers of novels
Lorraine CavanaghMay 19, 20223 minMikhail Khodarenok – The ‘What If?’ QuestionIt is reported by the BBC[1] that a senior Russian military figure, Mikhail Khodarenok, a military analyst and retired colonel has, on a...