A wild, windswept journey in search of roots — and wings Been working my tailfeathers off over here! The sequel to Round America with a Duck is currently in final editing. It is heading to Design this […]
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My Brief “Return” to Ireland
I got to make a brief “return” to Ireland as a guest blogger on the WWOOF Ireland website. Here’s what I wrote: 3 Farms in Ireland in 6 Weeks Foals followed me, a bag of […]
Covering the Story
I always start with visuals. While traveling Round Ireland with a Duck (the sequel to Round America with a Duck) recently, I took photos right there in a clover field, by the Irish Sea, at Donegal Bay, and […]
Arán agus Im
So I’m learning a new language, things like please (le do thoil) and thank you (go raibh maith agat). I can order bread and butter (arán agus im). And I’m moved to tears about how […]
Greetings from a Vintage Airstream
It’s four miles on hilly country roads — South Moore, Plum Nelly and Fawn Dawn — in order to avoid the 55-miles-per-hour main road that would get me there faster and more directly, but I […]
Soaring (see Update!)
Thank you for visiting and joining me on the journey so far. I’m doing the hard work of starting a new book — thinking it through; outlining; writing the proposal plus pilot-testing the experiential research […]
Pilot Test
And so it begins. I drove, rode my new folding bike 20 miles, took a bus in a county where I never rode their system before (I didn’t even know they had one), and even […]
3 Reasons Why If You Can Dream It, You Can Live it
I can’t get this fact, learned in a series of futures thinking courses I took recently, out of my mind: 1. On a medical scan called a Functional MRI (fMRI), the brain lights up in […]
