Celebrating St. Patrick's Day

While my celebrating won't include a parade, I will do my best to honor my family heritage with a good meal, a drink and likely a song or two.

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cultureNancy EganSt. Patrick's Day, corned beef and cabbage, Guinness, Dubliner cheese, Cahel Blue, slainte, Danny Boy, Off to Dublin in the Green, Kenmare Bay, Black Velvet Band, New York City, Ballymaloe.Irish Cooking School, Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, Butte Montana, St. Patrick's Day Parades, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Tullylease, County Limerick, Ireland Comments
Portraits of My Father as a Young Man

These last few days I have been thinking about my father as February 25 was his birthday.

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identity + narrativeNancy EganJames P. Egan, Butte Montana, Jeremiah Egan, Mary Sullivan Egan, Dromcollogher, Ardgroom, Ireland, US Navy, Naval Academy Annapolis, USS Calrson, destroyer escort, World War ll, Eniwetok, Okinawa, Philippines, Immaculate Conception Grade School, Butte High School, Montana School of Mines, Fort Peck Dam, Montana Hi-Line Comments
Keeping a Journal
Keeping a Journal

Last evening Julia Cameron was signing books at Collected Works, a local favorite bookstore. I didn't go as I have attended her workshops several times before and have been writing the "morning pages" she advocates in her book The Artist's Way for 30 years.

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identityNancy EganJulia Cameron, The Artist's Way, Rob Walker, Austin Kleon, John Searles, New York Times, morning pages, journaling, Amtrak, New York, Cambridge, Santa Monica SantaFe, Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words a Day, Lamy pens, Clairefontaine paper, storyteller, diary, journal Comments