It amazes me how easily catastrophe rises in my life. And how my sense of faith can be so quickly shattered
Michael Harding
Michael Harding columns
Michael Harding: My partner’s jaw dropped when I mentioned an old neighbour’s chamber pot
Michael Harding: I headed off, not with a walking stick, but with Ryanair to the mystical Spanish city
I got an invitation recently to a barbecue from a couple that are known for not getting on with each other
Michael Harding: An initial salutation and greetings was acceptable enough. But I crossed a line when I mentioned the holidaymakers’ cake
After bumping into him in the pharmacy, we went for coffee and compared our medication. This was a level of intimacy we had not bargained for
I had a dream about King Charles. A friend suggested it was articulating the pain of my own low self-esteem
Michael Harding: Perhaps he just went inside for a glass of water, but it felt like he had vanished; as if the balcony was his portal to an invisible realm
Michael Harding: My magical thinking about second-hand items bringing good fortune began in childhood
The truth is we can belong anywhere if we give it a chance
Love was something I longed for so desperately that I blundered for years as a young man
‘I used to long to know all about anyone who was clearly not from my neck of the woods. But such curiosity is a thing of the past’
Michael Harding: It was a risky joke, because stories have a way of imprisoning us
Some Irish towns are so devastated by economic disasters that I get homesick on the road and yearn for the quiet pastoral beauty of Leitrim
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