Restoring Mayberry

You can see many Stonehenge-like structures like this across Ireland, this one taller than a person. It rests on the Burren, that stark land...

We just finished one of the last three-day-weekends of the year here in Ireland, and one of the last days we can spend the weekend working o...

A few days ago, I talked about the village markets people used to have here, and thought I would explain where the animals came from. This i...

We just finished watching 1960s footage of the animal markets in Irish villages. It was a world many older people here remember -- even my w...

My day job sent me to the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany last week, and amid the frantic schmoozing that such events require I was able to ...

In lieu of more extensive blogging, here is an update of what we have been doing lately. Pickling: radishes, cabbage, cucumbers, gherkins an...

I don't often link to other people's blogs, but this blog by Bill Sepmeier does a good job of describing how difficult it is to be ...

The Girl and I took a tour of Ailwee Cave, discovered by a farmer on the Burren and kept secret for decades. It formed from the torrent and ...

Last weekend we went to the West of Ireland, where The Girl and I spent a full day driving through Conemara, the pastoral land to the north ...

For those interested, my article on Ireland in the recession is now on Big Questions Online -- go check it out here .