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Birthday Present
I received one of my most memorable birthday presents exactly forty years ago. The memory of that event is still vivid—okay vivid is a relative term at this stage in the game. We were living on the...
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VW Bus, Our Hippie Adventure, Part 1
I know I must be hitting middle age because tsunami’s of nostalgia keep washing over me. The latest was prompted by the news that Brazil, the last remaining country to produce the Volkswagen camper...
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Greek Island Adventure, Part 2
Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals is the reason my parents loaded their three young daughters and camera equipment into the back of a red VW camper van and drove across Europe to go and...
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Greek Island Adventure, Part 3
Have you ever daydreamed about something, and then that daydream came true? When I was seven years old, that happened to me. It all started one grey, rainy January day on a family walk in Ireland, the...
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Corfu Adventure, Part 4
When my family and I arrived on Corfu in 1973, we were part of a long line of blow-ins. For a small island, it has a blockbuster of a history, and not surprisingly, features in Greek mythology....
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Greek Island Adventure, 5
Angeliki putting on her national costume with Katerina & Yaya’s help In 1973 as a seven-year-old child living the idyllic life on the island of Corfu, I was oblivious to the fact that Greece was in...
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TOP TEN THINGS I’VE LEARED ABOUT BLOGGING
Blogging is not for sissies. It takes time, focus, and hard work if you want to put out blogs that won’t make you cringe down the road. But the rewards are big. As the Write Eejit comes to the end of...
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COMFORT FOOD: BREAD
We all have our comfort foods—mine is bread. White bread was a staple of my Irish childhood—the sliced pan, as it was known. It made excellent toast fingers for dipping in soft boiled eggs, or for...
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