Cathie Mullen
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Cathie Mullen
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Irish in Germany. International educator, lover of words and stories and trees and cats! Stinging Fly Summer School, The Mersey Review. Currently finishing a memoir.
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Bald schließen die Wahllokale. Und ganz gleich, was dann passiert – ich will einmal sagen: Danke! Das war ein Wahlkampf, wie ich ihn führen wollte. Ab jetzt liegt es nicht mehr in unseren Händen. Diese Wahl liegt bei Ihnen und Euch. Wir sehen uns ab 18:00 Uhr. 😉

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Danke für diesen Wahlkampf | Robert Habeck
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February 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
So much life! 👏
February 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A Poet‘s Life: a perch and a pillow! 😍
February 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ The people you least expect, will be the bravest in all this. 🦋 (winter camellia in my garden)
January 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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My year of Russian novels! I’m loving this one! And then? Suggestions, please!
January 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
'Thoughts'! Oh my! Here's to that very first book @josephfasano.bsky.social and to the parents who treasured it!
This chokes me up. A while ago I went to visit my parents, who are not "literary" people, and this is what I saw. The "book" on the left is apparently something I wrote when I was 10. The rest are what I've done with my life.
January 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I agree!🤷‍♀️
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
January 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.
January 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
An excellent summary - a story of disinterest, disbelief, denial, sexism and ignorance in the medical profession’s response to CFS/ME.
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'The Tangled Story of ME/CFS', one of the 'Dialogues for a neglected illness' films, now has German subtitles, translated by ME-AKTUELL.DE as well as English subtitles.
The Tangled Story of ME/CFS
www.dialogues-mecfs.co.uk
January 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
This is just great! Reading on my kindle but will have to have a paper copy! amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...
All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – biting humour | Fiction | The Guardian
This keenly observed debut brilliantly captures the internal monologue of a misanthrope, in a portrait of intellectual melancholia
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January 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Thirty pages in and I’m in awe! Beautiful, moving stuff.
November 25, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Meet my mentor! Seriously!
November 25, 2024 at 7:07 AM