cheddar + dill biscuits + living this one great life
Whenever you are faced with a choice between liberty and security, choose liberty. Otherwise you will end up with neither. People who sell their souls for the promise of a secure job and a secure...
View Articledublin delayed + a lesson quietly learned
I’m writing this from the Radisson Hotel near JFK airport. After four exhaustive hours at the airport, we learned that our flight was cancelled due to mechanical issues with our plane. My father was...
View Articleopen your eyes: dublin, day one
“There’s so much beauty here, but we never see it because we drive by beauty every day and we take it for granted.” So goes the exchange between my father and a cab driver at 4:30 in the morning....
View Articleireland, day two: glendalough, wicklow mountains + kilkenny {the calm after...
When I tell my pop that we’re about to board a Paddy Wagon, he howls and says, You’re a gas man! A few moments later, I point to a green bus that bears the name of a police van, driven by an Irishman,...
View Articleireland day three: connemara + galway
I have this dream and I have it often. In this particular dream I have time, oceans of it, and it nearly comes to a pause when I find myself in a house perched in front of the ocean. Sometimes I’m...
View Articledublin day four: final day in photos
So strange to be in two countries in one day. So wonderful to travel an ocean holding your father’s hand when the ride gets rocky. Although it seems as if I’ve had a tough holiday, my father and I came...
View Articlefoodie finds: covet-worthy cookbooks
Years ago, I remember watching an episode of Nigella Bites, where she opened the doors of her expansive larder to reveal rows of spices, chocolate, tins and exotic foodstuffs from faraway countries —...
View Articlebritish-style scones with dried cherries
On the plane ride back from Dublin, my father and I agreed that we were ruined. Our drama was rooted in the fact that we had the best scones, butter and chicken we’d ever had. Believe me when I say...
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