When your eyes well up they remind me of a day at the beach with small children shivering underneath the dark clouds of suppressed emotion.   Then you give me that look, and it’s like an afternoon shower on the fourth of July. Guests scurry inside, leaving muddy tracks across the carpet of my regard. […]

I ran across some old picture files from a trip I took to England and Ireland back in 2003.  One of the highlight of that trip was visiting Blarney Castle.  It is the first medieval castle that I ever visited and it was fascinating to me.  I remember climbing the stone spiral stairs and feeling […]