Triona Trog's Blog

I have a very clear memory from almost 4 years ago. It was just after Easter, toward the end of April, and I was on the Greek island of Ke...

Toward the end of 2009 I decided to write about 4 people whose creative output and/or personal stories have had a big impact on my life. Wri...

Music has always been central to my life in a mysterious way that I can talk about a lot, but can never fully explain. It's like the wi...

Hild of Whitby is going to be, in a way, the most difficult of my heroes to talk about. That's because she lived in the 7th century AD,...

I first came across Seamus Heaney in my second year university literature text book. I think the first thing that caught my eye was his name...

The other day I was talking to a good friend about dreams, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes came up. When I was 17 I was wandering through a book...

So, today I drove down to St. John's Music and forked over the cash for my very own, very shiny, very sweet euphonium. It wasn't a...