Signs Of The Time

Of the many things I love about the apartment I’ve called home for several years now – the breathtaking view of the Portland city skyline is the highlight.  Looking out from my bedroom, I can see all of downtown Portland, behind it the rolling west hills, and before it the lower industrial Southeast.  In the [...]

The Odds

On our second to last day in Ireland, my father and I negotiated the Ireland busing system, and purchased two tickets to Ardee,  a small village about an hour and a half north of Dublin. The bus would apparently stop a five minute walk outside of the main town – and another bus would [...]