HeyJaredNiamh Cooper
Irish writer, overthinker, reluctant adult. I write the stuff that's funnier in hindsight. Essays, stories, confessions from West Cork. You know, the stuff no one puts on a postcard. I'm also a food writer and share my fav recipes here too.
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Tales from A Bookshop (opens the original)
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029 The Empty Nest: How Unrequited Love Was The Beginning, And, In The End, The End (opens the original)
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And the third time, the next of many more, was when my daughter was three weeks old.Let me rewind.It had been grand, really. He seemed really into me, and at the beginning, seemed to pedestalise me, if this is a verb - and if it isn’t, it should be. Some days, he seemed to pedestalise, except on the days he didn’t.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1518406479616-cd3f1cde0a50?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw
028 The Empty Nest: She's 84, She Hates AI... And She Won't Stop Messaging It (opens the original)
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Every once in a while, when I go to my elderly mother’s house, I scroll through her phone, to see what (possibly innocent) wars have been declared this week. And I bemoan the fact that I have, unwittingly, perhaps, turned into one of those ‘sandwich’ empty nesters - my kids in their 20s but not quite flown, and my octogenarian mother, who has merrily, and verily, reinstalled herself in my nearest town, after decades abroad, and who has decided she is a toddler again. Our relationship is complica
027 The Empty Nest: Why The Burnt Toast Theory Is Bollox (opens the original)
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This morning, I put the burnt toast theory to the test.<img alt="toasted bread" class="sizing-normal" height="6000" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1565608053376-ce9ebbea7678?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg
016: Empty Nest Life: Why Patrick Should Fckn Say Thank You (opens the original)
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