Mark Twain once wrote, “travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these account. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” I wanted to start my journey to Ireland […]
A Precious Moment of Pure Romance
Arriving in Dublin, I looked out the windows of our charter bus expectantly. Not that I had firmly decided upon expectations of what Ireland would look like, I simply wanted to see how different everything looked on a different continent. I had seen pictures of steep cliffs overlooking infinite, grey ocean, of crags and sprawling […]
Blood
For the first week as I walked around the streets of Dublin, I continuously noticed a poster simply titled, “Blood—not for the faint hearted.” The primarily black and white poster showcases a single red drop of blood that appears 3-D like. A group of us decided to explore the Blood exhibit which was located in […]
Grey Grey Galway
In the hours before we began the journey to Galway, I reflected on our previous recent visit to Hoath. I revisited my feelings of freedom and liberation standing upon the tall rocky cliffs, staring far out into what appeared as a gray nothing, but cleverly masked the rest of the entire world beyond this sea. […]
Grey Grey Galway
In the hours before we began the journey to Galway, I reflected on our previous recent visit to Hoath. I revisited my feelings of freedom and liberation standing upon the tall rocky cliffs, staring far out into what appeared as a gray nothing, but cleverly masked the rest of the entire world beyond this sea. […]