- - bullet holes at the General Post Office, Dublin, 2007 Last post was praise, and I loved you joining me. Then Sunday, the day after St...

- - Portrait of Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), by Peter Edwards National Portrait Gallery, London; I have a postcard of this painting taped to m...

- We're closing the circle of the year. Christmas for me is a spiral of memories, unwrapping tree ornaments from worn and wrinkled tissu...

- - With the onset of autumn, I remember that I have china. "The Holidays" are around the corner with all that feasting - the firs...

Last week on the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Ireland, Inge returned to the churchyard where a couple dozen beech trees line a stone wall ...

I'm sorry I won't be going to Ireland for the University this summer. I was lucky to go the last three years. Enjoy the green.