The Elders

We just got back from Easter dinner at my sister’s place. And I’m feeling grateful. It was a lovely family gathering. Most of my immediate family was there.  The only ones missing were our son and his family and two nieces and a nephew. But my sister also invited some of our cousins. We had…

Learning Irish

I didn’t want to learn Irish when I was growing up. It wasn’t a thing. I knew that my mother could speak some Gaelic, but I never really thought of it as another language. I grew up in Quebec, so there was English and French. Those were the languages on my horizon. But when my…