'Don't wait up Maw' is the overall title of my notebook. I draw material from writing, photography, a lipstick imprint on a napkin. The writing takes me from the domestic world of tealeaves and tealeaf images to deep interiors (literally and physically). 'Don't wait up Maw' is inspired by a note left by my daughter before a night out and, at first, I read it as a signpost advising me to withdraw. As I age, I find that the world is changing, certainly my perception of it. Finding the physical world of The Nerja Caves, documented in the notebook, is a crucial expression of hidden depths, ultimately an interior safety net. Again, as I age, I find myself going deeper to explore memory and the meaning of certain episodes in my life. My tealeaf images are very important to me. I've been documenting them for a number of years now and writing haiku based on the images which have emerged. As a writer, I'm alert to source material. Since I wrote the notebook, my haiku/tealeaf images have been published in 'The Jelly Bucket', an Eastern Kentucky University publication. I could not get them published in Ireland, I'm not sure if they are recognised as an art form here. It's my belief that they are. 'Don't Wait up Maw' can be read as inversion also, an entreaty to 'wait up,' to be constantly alert to the nuances of an idea.