
Salem, MA: Of witches and wizards
There was a stage in my life when I would drive the length and breadth of Ireland to see a fortune teller. I was fascinated,

There was a stage in my life when I would drive the length and breadth of Ireland to see a fortune teller. I was fascinated,

I’ve never quite known what to make of New Hampshire’s state motto but have concluded, on my own, without asking anyone, not even Google, that

Em…. how many states make up New England again? Maine? And? I can’t believe I had to ask that question. I suppose I didn’t HAVE

I have a fondness for statues. I can talk to them for hours. I used to visit József Attila quite often a few years ago

‘So’, I said, ‘what do you want to do?’ My visitor technically wasn’t my visitor at all. I’d borrowed him for the afternoon from a

I’m not a planner. The sole plan I have in life is to have no plan. Planning has a way of, well, getting in the

Put a bunch of Irish, American Loyalists, and Scottish Highlanders on an island and a couple of centuries later, you can have your own Heritage

Time is a wonderfully malleable thing. We think that have just 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a

We were on the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton. You sure you know where you’re going? he asked. Absolutely – Meat Cove – most northerly

In a world of constant change, it’s almost gratifying to know that my abysmal sense of geography is still matched by my equally pathetic knowledge