To Market, To Market
Oh, how I’ve missed the Friday Market in Bantry. No clever text here, just pictures. Also, Box of Frogs, my favorite coffee shop in all of Ireland. Who doesn’t love […]
Monthly Archives: April 2022
Driving in Ireland
Driving in Ireland is hilarious. By which I mean terrifying, actually. Your first hint should come from reading the fine print on your Mastercard or Visa, or whatever you rent […]
Welcome Back
I came into Kilcrohane by foot this time, all but one hillclimb through a loop up Seefin, down Farranmanagh toward Dunmanus Bay, west along the Sheep’s Head Way, and back […]
Things That are Older Than I Am
Rambled three miles today, mostly around Cashel, where I got to be reminded how old I’m not. That’s half the mileage of yesterday, which was again half from two days […]
Getting Old
Me, not the rambles, at least not yet. At my age I should know better than to launch straight off the plane into twelve miles of rambles. But but but […]
Baby Steps
I can’t remember who it was who first noticed, and called me on it: when walking on ice or other uncertain surfaces, I do a little outward twist of my […]
“Can” Doesn’t Mean “Should”
I expect only a minuscule fraction of the living who quote Thomas Wolfe’s pronouncement that “You can’t go home again” have ever read the actual novel. I haven’t. Probably should, […]
Not Quite Out of My Mind
Yet. But I’m working on it. Y’all may have noticed (if you’ve been paying attention) that I’ve been a bit off kilter for a while. Kilter – from the English […]
“I hear there will be goats…”
We wanted to get there a few minutes early, because we suspected there’d be a crowd. Crowds are still a bit unnerving in this peri-pandemic time, but we weren’t going […]
The Grind
“The act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” -Madeleine Albright [Warning: whiny, privileged rant ahead.] I have so little in life to complain about. […]
David Pablo Cohn 