Restoring Mayberry

Bluebells on the forest floor in County Clare.  I've been blogging only very occasionally for the last few months, as I've been ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about black-and-white movies like  Stagecoach , and how they often dealt with our modern, 21st-century problems...

Photo courtesy of Wikicommons. As long as there have been humans, we have taken the parts of plants we don’t eat and thrown them bac...

I’ve written about my love of old black-and-white movies from the 1930s and 40s, and how their simple human stories remain relevant to o...

I'll write more soon, but for the moment I wanted to thank Rod Dreher, author of "Crunchy Cons" and "The Benedict Optio...

No matter what else you have in your kitchen, you probably have eggs. Whether you boil or fry them for breakfast, whisk them into egg-dr...

Winter sunset over the Bog of Allen Every year my daughter was growing up, I brought her to the Wren Day at the local forest, and...