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January. One of my least favourite months of the year. What\u2019s good about it? Once the fairy lights come down, the ordinary lights illuminate all too well the dust and the dirt and the debris that the fairy lights have kindly masked during the moodily-lit month of December. I miss the tree in the sitting room too. The fact that it\u2019s perfectly normal to have a tree in the sitting room. No-one blinks an eye. Even at our one which rarely looks like the trees pictured on the fronts of Christmas cards. It\u2019s almost a tradition now. Turkey? Check! Ham? Yes! Presents? Wrapped! Decrepit, lopsided tree? Oh yes. But put the fairy lights on that baby, pour yourself a glass of Baileys and repair to the couch, and you\u2019ve got yourself a little slice of magic, right there, in your sitting room.<\/p>\n

Then along comes January and with it, the Visa bill with its traditional smirk and air of I told you so. That cold, bare month that seems so long. Longer still if you haven\u2019t yet reneged on any of your new year resolutions.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, It can be an opportune month for contemplation, since you\u2019re not going out and there\u2019s no booze left in the house. You can sit and think.<\/p>\n

I think about years. Ten of them. A decade. That\u2019s a pretty significant period of time, isn\u2019t it. Long enough to be considered an \u2018era\u2019. An \u2018epoch\u2019 even.<\/p>\n

Ten is the number of years I\u2019ve been writing.<\/p>\n

I started writing in the September of 2004. I was thirty-four years old. That was ten years ago (ten years and four months for the more pedantic among you) which means, yes, I know, I\u2019m getting to that bit\u2026.I\u2019m forty-four years old now. Forty-four and a half actually but who \u2013 apart from the more pedantic among you \u2013 is counting?<\/p>\n

I always planned to be forty-four some day. Not in a, \u2018Oh I can\u2019t wait to be forty-four\u2019 kind of way. In a presumptuous way. I presumed I would be forty-four one day. That I would make it to this most inauspicious of ages. Despite the cigarettes and the red wine and the sausage rolls.<\/p>\n

I never planned to be a writer. That\u2019s the bit which took me by surprise. And now, I\u2019ve been one for ten years and have written five novels. At thirty-four, I never saw that coming. At forty-four, I\u2019m glad it did.<\/p>\n

In the film, \u2018Kramer versus Kramer,\u2019 Merryl Streep goes to LA to \u2018find herself.\u2019 That always made me laugh. Scoff really. In an unkind way. I thought, \u2018What do you mean? Find yourself? Sure aren\u2019t you already there?\u2019<\/p>\n

My fifth book \u2013 Now That I\u2019ve Found You \u2013 is out in paperback today, which makes January feel a bit better than it has any right to. And\u2026.this is going to sound twee\u2026.am typing this bit with my eyes closed, in cringing-type way\u2026.I sort of feel\u2026.yes, I\u2019m going to say it\u2026.that, in writing, I\u2019ve kind of found myself. Writing has uncovered me. Has dug me up, unearthed me. Ten years of writing, and here I am.<\/p>\n

There.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said it.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s true, too.<\/p>\n

Is Mise, le meas,<\/p>\n

Ciara G.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nNow That I\u2019ve Found Me - Ciara Geraghty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ciarageraghty.com\/now-that-ive-found-me\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Now That I\u2019ve Found Me - Ciara Geraghty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ciarageraghty.com\/now-that-ive-found-me\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ciara Geraghty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CiaraGeraghtyBooks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-09T14:34:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ciarageraghty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ciara-Geraghty-by-Steve-Humphreys.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"412\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ciara Geraghty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ciarageraghty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ciarageraghty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ciara Geraghty\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ciarageraghty.com\/now-that-ive-found-me\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ciarageraghty.com\/now-that-ive-found-me\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ciara Geraghty\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ciarageraghty.com\/#\/schema\/person\/50da80ea84abf37edc336f90415f8521\"},\"headline\":\"Now That I\u2019ve Found Me\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-09T14:34:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-09T14:34:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ciarageraghty.com\/now-that-ive-found-me\/\"},\"wordCount\":1178,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ciarageraghty.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Trains - 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