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 […]
Category Archives: roadtrip
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. […]
Snow Day
I’ve written before that the cruel lie of being self-employed is that you can take a day off whenever you want; the brutal truth is that you never do. Well, […]
David Pablo Cohn 