#family-memories

#family-memories

Randi Mahomes, Patrick's mother, described selling the family home as 'bittersweet', reflecting on the memories made there while eager for a new start.

My father opened up the book, found his Kipling, and read aloud, the way he would when he wanted to share something he considered amusing from that day's Wall Street Journal.

Every year, the third Sunday of June, International Father's Day, strikes a different chord for me. I was 7 when my father died of heart failure.

"When Michelle Lynch's son Matthew was a little boy, she used to tell him stories about pirates. This was partly because of her job, and partly because the house in which they lived in Belturbet, Co Cavan, overlooked a lake known locally as Smugglers Lake."