Resolutions: Prison is Not the Life for Me
I am marvelous at making resolutions. Intentions, commitments, pledges, and aspirations are like the promised land to me. Rarely do I…
Tag: food
Christmas With the Family: Vodka and Variations
Christmas-celebrating families all have their ways of making merry. Those members of my family who still speak to each other…
Lunch at Portland’s Beast with Friends
I write about the philosophy of stealing a day from fate because I believe it is an important part of…
Two Tales of Dublin
I lost my map of Dublin in the toilet of the restaurant where I ate breakfast. Or maybe I left…
The Time Dublin Gave Me the Cold Shoulder
I have entered an alternative Irish universe called Dublin and I don’t recognize it. At breakfast this morning at O’Malley’s…
County Cork History and Weighing in
My morning began with an early delivery of beer kegs, rolling down the sidewalk to the door of the pub…