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deck the halls
Trust the bride to choose a groom from a family who live in the most perfect New England town ever. Essex, on the deep estuary of the Connecticut River, is picturesque most of the year, but comes into its own during the snow-covered days of winter. With cold weather taking hold a few weeks earlier … Continue reading deck the halls
washington dc for dummies
Americans aren’t rude: it just seems that way to the uninitiated. They can be polite but very direct, as are the Customs Hall officials at LAX where I land like a stunned bird after a fourteen-hour trans-Pacific flight. “Ma’am, move up the line please. Aisles fifteen and sixteen for US citizens only. Have your passports … Continue reading washington dc for dummies
disasters in the future tense
I am an Australian. Naturalised, naturally. Born in Ireland, and having spent over twenty of my adult years in England, I am a child of a cool temperate maritime climate, a post-war Britain, a post-Independence Republic of Ireland. Nowhere in my personal or national psyche has prepared me for the enormity of experiencing a disaster … Continue reading disasters in the future tense
Máiréad Doyle 