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Me and You and SARS-CoV-2: A Year in Review

History February 17, 2021

Historians will look back at 2020 with the same fascination as arborists looking at one of those tree-ring anomalies that signal something cataclysmic—a wildfire,...

Running Away from Newtownards

History February 24, 2021

We've been having an unsettled week here in Northern Ireland. The house we booked for December turned out to have an intractable internet problem...

Picturing the Coastal Path

Travel February 16, 2021

For the past few weeks we've been doing a lot of walking around the town of Bangor (N.I.) and its attendant bays. One of...

Walking to the Shop in Bangor, NI

Travel November 16, 2020

For a couple of weeks now we've been in the seaside town of Bangor, Northern Ireland. The winter weather here is not infrequently 'manky',...

Old-Timey Travel for the Holiday Deprived

Travel November 11, 2020

Exotic vacations are not easy to come by right now. Even if a vaccine has been announced, it will be a few months yet...

Rounding the Ards Peninsula

Running November 4, 2020

This week we moved to an apartment by the sea in Bangor, Northern Ireland (i.e. not Wales or Maine). The first thing we noticed...

MacNeice in Ireland: A Prism of Delight & Pain

History January 2, 2021

Until recently, I knew three things about Louis MacNeice (1907-1963): that he was from Ireland, that he was friends with Auden and that he...

The DeLorean in Dunmurry

History April 29, 2021

I’ve been wondering about the DeLorean for a couple of months because this space-aged car of stainless steel played a big (albeit brief) part...

Risking a Trip to Titanic Belfast

History September 23, 2020

It seems kind of weird that Belfast would capitalize on its links to a terrible shipping disaster, but that’s what it has gone and...

Walls and Peace in Belfast

History September 15, 2020

Yesterday we went on a taxi tour of the murals of Belfast. Our guide was clearly a tough customer. About fifty but wiry and spry,...

All Toes on the Towpath

History September 4, 2020

Belfast is a surprisingly wonderful city for running, with no shortage of greenways, parks and riverbank trails. My favorite place for long weekend runs...

The Big Defibrillated Heart of Belfast

Heroes August 28, 2020

We’ve been in Belfast for nearly two months now and I’m afraid I’m getting almost fond of it. Don’t get me wrong, its bad...

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Portal to Ur

The Other Gallipoli

Beach Walk

Tolkien in Italy