I’m feeling physically and especially mentally exhausted lately. I’m ready to recharge with some travelling.
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Terse Tuesday 12
Treated myself to a bottle of Midleton Very Rare 2014. Exceedingly smooth, richly caramel, lightly spiced. Definitely a bottle to savor!
Saturday Spotlight
I like the structure of posting about a given topic on a given day. It makes it easier to stick to my commitment of writing here more.
With that in mind, I’m introducing a twice monthly feature to highlight the great restaurants, attractions, and tour operators I’ve encountered and loved in the course of my wanderings. Look for the first Saturday Spotlight tomorrow.
Terse Tuesday 11
I don’t do well in heat. So the unseasonable weather we’ve been having lately has been fantastic. Too bad it’s not supposed to last.
Terse Tuesday 10
Sometimes I don’t know what’s more pleasurable: travelling or the anticipation of it.
Terse Tuesday 9
The thing about genealogy is that the more you learn, the more questions you have. What lead my great-grandparents to leave Ireland? How did they scrape together the money for passage? How did they reconcile leaving so much, and so many, behind?
Or today’s question: were any of my great grand aunts, uncles, or cousins involved with the Rising’s Ulster front? How so? As I read how Ireland prepares to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, I can’t help but wonder…
For those with Ulster roots who want to do some wondering of their own, this great RTE podcast, first broadcast over radio in 1964, is a great place to start: “1916 in Ulster.”
Terse Tuesday 8
Ultimately, whiskey is a social drink; it always tastes better among friends.
– Daniel Yaffe, Drink More Whiskey
Tonight’s another Women and Whisky night at The Caledonian, and I’m thrilled to initiate a few friends and my sister.
Terse Tuesday 6
Just back from a work retreat, and my head is swimming with ideas. A proper post later this week.
Terse Tuesday 5
I feel very privileged to have two families that make me feel loved and wanted: the family into which I was born, and the one into which I married.
Terse Tuesday 4
Toronto is for tourists in summer, when each weekend arrives with another street festival and road closure. But in forcing us off our well-trodden routes, these festivals give us Torontonians the opportunity to be tourists ourselves, and that’s something to be embraced, not lamented.
Wanderlust 