I’ve been publishing this blog for almost 20 years now, and lately my posting has fallen off, for personal reasons. I recently moved back to the USA to help take care of my elderly parents, and also to spend more time with my own extended family. I’ve had to adjust to living in a country much changed from what I remember, as well as with family duties, jobs and the burning usual of life.
On the good side, however, I assembled 20 years of writings about the Irish countryside, and the words of several hundred elderly Irish, into a book, and this year it was published. I also met an amazing woman, and for the first time since I was raising my daughter, am no longer living my life alone. With everything that’s been happening, I have not had much time for new writing, and I intend to change that. I’ve never been much for resolutions, but for the first time in years, it feels like a new beginning.
