Lifestyle

In the days before mass communication and globalisation and extremely fast air travel turned our world into a shoebox (metaphorically speaking, of course) it was easy enough to be master of your domain. Kill a few wild animals. Perfect the art of the slow-cooked pheasant. Tell a particularly good fireside tale. Hell, even make fire […]

Since my public admission (on this website) about my non-existent handyman skills, I’ve recently been challenged on another essential “must have” before I can officially call myself a “millennium man”, but this one I refuse to take on the chin! According to my wife, I can’t cook, but picture, if you will, the following scene […]

So I’ve had me an epiphany. A three-week-old epiphany, but when epiphanies come a-knocking I don’t like to refuse them. Instead of rabbiting on about life and love and everything else (which is, in fact, what I do on my daily blog — www.blog.bridgetmcnulty.com), I’m going to stick to my word (or words, in my […]

I’ve realised that my writing all centres around one core obsession: why people act the way they do. I was quite aware of it before, but this week I’ve been interviewed (lah-di-da!) at length about my novel, Strange Nervous Laughter, and the one topic that kept resurfacing is this fascination with why people act the […]

Ramadan is the Islamic fasting month. Most Muslims use the fasting month to discharge the obligatory charity, called Zakaat, for those with the means. Ramadan is also a time when voluntary charity is given more freely. I am nowhere close to being versed with the rules and regulations covering all these charities, but having done […]

Ladies and gentlemen: welcome to what you will come to know, hopefully fondly, as the Nightmare Series. I hope that you will come to wait eagerly for each addition to the series with bated breath and overwhelming anticipation. From time to time I will throw in these pieces, which will be insightful explorations of the […]

A bad day demands an anthem. You’re waiting patiently at a red light for the turning arrow to start flashing so you can start your journey home, and five selfish bastards across the intersection keep turning after their arrow has long ago faded to nought. Or some client has driven you to the brink of […]

So this is how it’s going to go down: Artist A comes in and says a bit about why he or she is here and why the audience is here, performs a couple of tracks and then we run with the celeb-studded public service announcements and hey presto! We have raised awareness about the plight […]

Here’s a disruptive thought: life is a spectacular thing, all the time. Life is what we are given. Or, to put it differently, it’s what we have. It’s the brute, unchangeable fact that connects us all. It’s what we all absolutely have in common, the singular reality on which there is, and can be, no […]

To all those struggling writers out there, desperately sipping cups of cold coffee and dregs of red wine, smoking cigarettes until the ashtrays overflow and typing furiously until 3am, I have a message of hope: the dream is true. And to all those un-exotic writers waking up at a reasonable hour and studiously sitting down […]