Katy's Words: The Writings of Catherine (Cathy) Astolfo

  We head back From Skibbereen on a different route this time. Not as much traffic. The day is glorious, blue and sunny. T...

  We go to the lounge about 5:30 and sit by the fire. We have beer and wine. We meet Dominic the bartender. We also meet a...

  July 1998   Just as we’re nearing the signs for Bantry (about 2-3 kms out), someone in front of us stops suddenly to pul...

Writing my book about a fictional ancestor involved some truth, too. My trips to Ireland helped inform the story. On one of those trips, in ...

After my little cat gets her diagnosis of acute kidney failure, with no real answer about why the disease progressed so rapidly, I question ...

Dear Dad, May 11 has rolled around 38 times since you abruptly left for the other dimension. I know you've been watching. We've ...

            Terror on the East Coast - Two Million Dead!     TOLEDO, OHIO, March 15, 2018 – Yesterday, more than two million people w...