The beginning of the Enda …
Well you got here, so thanks for dropping in.
What Kind Of Blog Is This — and What’s In it For You?
I have written many articles, for newspapers, mainly, over the years, and this is an extension of that. Or maybe a next step. While I wait for that novel I will probably never write to arrive, I can explore things here, and hope that in the individuality of my ramblings you will also find the universality that binds us, and we can both feel less alone. Like a good song can capture how we feel about all sorts, like love, family — and the things that really bug us — but also leaves room to make it (y)ours. It connects us.
Yes, But Why Blog?
There’s a woman in my town, a shy woman I have only ever said hello to. But I know something about her: she plants flowers not just in her own garden, but beyond it … inside the short wall in the small green across from her house, beside the main road … around trees … different places. It is a delight to happen upon her buried treasures when they spring up, and spread their colourful effusion of petal, leaf and cheer.
I’m not especially shy, but neither am I forward, or bombastic enough, when it comes to my ramblings, to demand your attention, so I’m another guerilla gardener, planting word seeds and hoping they eventually catch the sun, and your attention.
But most times I blog I don’t wonder why … I just do, and it’s important to me. I wander around the attic in my head, picking up old memories and new impressions to peruse, and to find out what I really think. And share that.
The only thing I would further ask of you, is that you would share what you read with friends, or social media contacts. And thank you, if you do.
Besides my blog, I am a newspaper sub-editor, living in a seaside town, a family guy with a wife, two kids and two dogs, good friends and siblings, and a life.
A guide to my Home page:
FAMILY LIFE: Posts relating to me as father, son, and husband. For example: Parenting: it’s a kind of magic
MISCELLANEOUS: Post that don’t fall under Family Life! These include: Ordinary people are not as ordinary as you think
PERSONAL: Posts on life, the universe and whatever: Aside-pieces
PUBLISHED:: Some of my journalistic work in Irish newspapers and magazines, like: The Grand Passion of Con Houlihan
SPORTING: Articles/blog posts with a sporting theme. Soul murder with a seven-iron
POLITICAL: Me telling governments and world leaders what to do. Opinion-pieces
SERIES: Let’s Move To … was a weekly series I researched and wrote for the property section of the Irish Independent newspaper from March 2015 to December 2015. Each week I featured a different town, or Dublin suburb from the point of view of a family thinking of moving there, ie local history, culture, schools and amenities, and the local property market. Let’s-Move-To.
I wrote Home From Home weekly from January to March 2016. Each week I featured an attractive holiday bolthole in a scenic part of Ireland. Home-From-Home
COME ON IN: Do pop in and look around my little word garden. Look at my flower. Pick up a few windfalls. Or call back later when you have time.
PRIVACY POLICY: Please note any email addresses or personal information that come to this site when you comment or follow my blog will not be used, disclosed or processed in any manner incompatible with the purpose for which it was obtained.
CONTACT ME: Email address: endas1896@gmail.com;
Twitter handle: @endas1896
- A BIG THANK YOU TO MARCO MANCUSO FOR THE SITE REVAMP
EndaStories 
You’re a great writer, I’m glad we connected on that FB group. Did you play jazz too?
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I can just about play a video! But I do love music. Thanks sou much for your kind words and following me. Enda
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Play a video I mean!
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This is a well organized about page. 😊
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Thank you!
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Hi Enda,
Thanks for dropping by my blog, and for your comments.
Glad to connect with you.
By the way, I also do editing, for a newspaper.
Looking forward to your posts.
Regards, Pradeep
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We have a lot in common, so! It has been an interesting experience working from home. Good when it’s good, but a nightmare when we have to get our IT people!
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The blog is looking great, Enda – love the articles 😉
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Howya Dave, good of you to say so … and History With A Twist back with a bang today!!
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It certainly is … just got savaged on Facebook for that article! The piece had to be removed by the person who shared it, such was the vitriol! Your blog is really good, congrats.
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Savaged, why? Hard to fathom that … you made a fair argument, presented it reasonably …
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A Facebook friend has just had a 40-year friendship ended because of it – her ‘friend’ said I was a racist old white man mansplaining to women and that I shouldn’t be supported!
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Jesus, that’s a bit extreme … I wonder how secure and comfortable a “friendship” was it? Feck’s sake, surely the whole point of a man writing a blog is for him to mansplain away, to men or women!!! Old, she said you were? As well as racist … I’m beyond salvation, altogether!!!
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Yep, we’re both screwed! 🙂
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