So we had a summit in the driveway, and the family agreed (for Mommy’s mental health, if for no other reason) that they would become more active in the planning of our final week in Ireland.
Category: Travel
On The Water
You can tell when a vacation’s going well – before the trip is half done, you begin planning how long it will be before you can come back again. Today as I walked along the ocean at Five Finger Bay I found myself dreaming of future Ireland visits, times when I might come back with…
5:30 in Raphoe
For my part, I spent my time pondering that although my family is over 300 years removed from Ireland / Scotland / Wales, I’m only 2 generations removed from a time when spring houses were necessary to keep butter cool and if you couldn’t make do you went without. My mother was born in 1919, her mother in 1889. In grandma’s corner of West Virginia, in many ways it may as well have been 1789.
Waiting For ____________
If there was no ‘sender’s first name’ information, the money could not be released by the computer. Therefore it was impossible for us to pick up our money gram.
The fact that there was NO first name provided by the sender, that the field in the form could not even be filled out, was inconsequential.
A New Day
Short of having the kids tap dance in front of the statue of Michael O’Connell, we just didn’t see how we’d scrape together the last €5 euros.
We’re Here, Lots of Good & A Big Piece of Shite
I realized it was missing about 2 blocks away, Hannah run like the wind back to the stop, the bag was there but my wallet and cell phone were gone. I’m still a bit in shock.
Seriously, Rick Levine, Are You Stalking Me?
Thursday, April 15, 2010 By Rick Levine Virgo (June 21 – Jul 22) It’s likely that you have been thinking about taking a vacation or doing something with educational value, but you haven’t been able to pull it all together. Today, it’s reassuring when your vision finally falls into place. But the work isn’t done;…
What I’ve Learned
If you’d asked me before Saturday if I thought carving 4 men on a mountain was silly, I may have said, “Yes, sort of…” Now I would say, “NO!”
Circuitous (& Snow Covered)
“All of the roads in front of you appear to be more circuitous than you prefer…”