Recently, in one of my online parenting discussions, we explored a question that sparked a fascinating conversation. “What if we stopped asking, ‘How do I stop this behaviour?’ and started asking, ‘What is this behaviour trying to tell me?’” It sounds like a small shift, but it changes everything. As […]
When we are young, our focus is often on building relationships, developing our careers, travelling, and discovering our own interests. Starting a family is usually not at the top of the priority list and that is completely understandable. Ironically, these are also the years when our fertility is at its […]
There’s a story about wildland firefighters from David Epstein’s book ‘Range’. The firefighters train to fight wildfires. Their protocol states that when they are in danger, they have to drop everything: their heavy tools, their uniform, and run. But what has been recorded again and again since the ‘90s is […]
By Nicholas Mitchell If you visit one of West Cork’s estuaries during July and August, you may notice something puzzling. Two Black-tailed Godwits standing side by side can look remarkably different, even though they belong to the same subspecies, ‘Limosa limosa icelandica’, which breeds in Iceland. I photographed the two birds […]
By Mark Kirby For generations, building a home on family land has been a familiar route to home ownership, particularly in rural Ireland. With house prices continuing to rise and housing supply remaining tight, more people than ever are now considering buying a site and building their own home as […]