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Thoughtful Tuesdays: St Valentine

News, Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Welcome to my page today. This week, you will be celebrating or not celebrating, embracing or ignoring, the feast of St Valentine. This poor Roman priest and physician - who suffered martyrdom during the persecution of Christians by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus - has become the patron ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Nonsense Poetry

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Welcome to the first ‘Thoughtful Tuesday’ page of 2022. It’s hard to believe it’s almost two years since we started the Extra pages to keep us going through what we thought might be a few weeks of lockdown. Yet here we still are, and we’re off to a ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Writing With Wonder – Keeping Memories

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Welcome to November’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. Here at Write On! we’ve been following the theme ‘Writing With Wonder: The World Through Children’s Eyes’ and I’m sharing some pieces which evoke childhood and the memories we keep from our growing-up years. The first piece is Vic Howard’s memory from Barking ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Rest + Recharge

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Welcome to my September ‘Thoughtful Tuesday’ page. We’ve had the summer to rest and recharge our batteries and, if you’ve been following the Extra pages, you’ll have seen that we took a little time to rest during August. So, I thought I’d start thinking about rest and taking it ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Plastic Free Month

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Welcome to July’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. This month, I’m using my page to share thoughts about our relationship with plastic: July is plastic free month. If, like me, you’re shocked to see images of plastic in our oceans and on our beaches, you’ll be happy to pause and ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Transformation

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Welcome to my page for June. I’d like to start with a quotation from John Steinbeck, one of my favourite writers: In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. I think it captures the flavour of the month well. We’re ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Share A Story

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen ‘Everyone has a story to tell’ is at the very heart of Pen to Print’s work. We invite people to make stories and tell stories and give voice to so many storytellers through Write On! magazine. May is National Share A Story Month, created to celebrate storytelling and how ...