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An Irish Renaissance Man 8 Aug 2013 | 12:50 am
My father, for all intents and purposes, is a Renaissance man. He can build almost anything; he handcrafted the wooden and rice paper shoji screen doors in their house, built my mother a pair of wood...
A Proper Summer in Ireland 30 Jul 2013 | 07:16 pm
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. – Steve Martin For the better part of the three-and-a-half years I’ve been here in Ireland, it’s been night. The previous two summers have been, at be...
Bye Bye Miss American Pie 14 Jul 2013 | 10:13 pm
For the first year I lived in Ireland, I mainly worked from home. While I loved the freedom (making my own schedule, staying in my PJs, etc.) it wasn’t the best way to socialise myself in a new countr...
To Paris, With Love 9 Jun 2013 | 10:26 pm
I imagine like many people in this world, I have always dreamed of going to Paris. The outdoor cafes, the croissants, the well-dressed Parisians – as an American who grew up Los Angeles, my notions of...
Tasty Morsels: Chapter One, Mash Direct & Odeon 3 May 2013 | 02:03 am
Clare, if you would like to talk to me about your recent visit my number is xxxxxxxxxx. Regards, Ross. Gulp. It was a direct message to my Twitter account from Ross Lewis, exec chef and co-owner of Ch...
…On the Importance of Girl Time 29 Apr 2013 | 11:18 pm
Even on the sunniest of days, when the sky and the ocean simultaneously reflect the most radiant shades of blue and the birds chirp away in the full, lush trees and everyone’s showing off their stems ...
Single Girl Behaviour 14 Apr 2013 | 06:29 pm
For the first year after I moved to Ireland, I lived alone in a lovely upper-floor apartment in Drogheda. And for several years prior to my move to Ireland, I lived alone without any live-in beaus or ...
Patience is the Art of Baking Bread 7 Apr 2013 | 10:04 pm
When I first moved to Ireland just over three years ago, I was a wide-eyed American girl with sense of adventure and an open mind…or so I thought. After the initial excitement of living in a new count...
Land of Milk & Potatoes 24 Mar 2013 | 08:20 pm
As I sit here typing this blog post, I’m looking outside at the wind and rain and bracing myself for the sleet that is forecasted for this evening. If Irish people are buying that this is Spring, I’ve...
A Passion for Homemade Meals 14 Mar 2013 | 04:04 pm
Every once in a while I like to write a short post on what we’ve been eating lately. We’re always keen to cook our own food versus buying ready-made lunches and we reserve restaurant outings for the w...
