Category: Musings
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David Bowie and me?
(First reaction on 11/1/2016, around 8:00 a.m., edited to correct some grammar) It’s hard to know where to start…David Bowie was the definitive soundtrack to my life. I looked up to him and the possibilities that he voiced. I first heard Space Oddity, Changes, (Oh You) Pretty Things and Kooks when they first came out…
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I hereby relinquish full claim forever to my said child…
In a past Ireland, women who found themselves pregnant outside of marriage were shunned, shamed and despised. Things have thankfully changed in this respect but there is still a generation of women and their children still in need of resolution for what was done to them. Many brave women (of which the extraordinary Philomena Lee is…
Martin Bridgeman 