Restoring Mayberry

If you're wondering why I haven't posted as often as I used to on this blog, I'm hoping that will change soon; I've been wor...

Sitting alone in our cars, our cubicles and in front of our screens, it’s almost impossible for us in the modern world to imagine how comm...

Most of us take libraries for granted, without appreciating what amazing things they are. Imagine having to buy even a fraction of the book...

  Whether you grew up in Arizona or Australia, Florida or Johannesburg, you probably celebrated Christmas by displaying plants from Northern...

It was 19 years ago that I first arrived in Ireland a few days before Samhain -- Hallowe'en -- when The Girl was still a baby. I didn...

Say “dehydrated food” and people think of army rations or those little pills people eat in science fiction, but you probably have many deh...