"With what I hope is a more mature eye, I know that the easiest ways are not always the most profitable. And with enough planning and patience I might just run the table on Minnesota one day."<< MORE >>

We came to a town called Kill, which we learned is the Gaelic word for "church." The potential for comedy about Kill seemed endless. We imagined hundreds of local football fans cheering their home team with "Kill! Kill! Kill!" I suggested that this could be quite intimidating to the opposing team. But Brian says we’re likely to hear that chant at most football games regardless which town the teams are from.<< MORE >>

Any resemblance between these statements and truly professional assessments of food quality is patently impossible. And those who witnessed my two-fisted feasting will certainly know to take these comments with a grain of salt – and vinegar, please.<< MORE >>

"Cead Mile Failte" as the saying goes - "A Hundred Thousand Welcomes." (We figure we wore out about 92,000 of them).<< MORE >>

"I was "cool" once, for about six months in the early 80's."<< MORE >>

"There is no more captive audience in the world than a man wearing a hair-covered apron and sporting half a haircut."<< MORE >>

Why can't I change lanes without purposefully avoiding the little bumpy things?<< MORE >>

"Ill can he rule the great who cannot reach the small." (Edmund Spenser)<< MORE >>

While the numbers (coincidentally) add up perfectly, the words are harder to calculate.<< MORE >>

Dreams - it's said - are for the young, But he invites me still.<< MORE >>

I was called a lot of things in high school, but bookish was not one of them.<< MORE >>

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.<< MORE >>