The Best Medicine

January can be a tough time. The holidays have been and gone, the decorations are down, it’s cold and dark in the morning. And it’s back to work or back to school. The third Monday in January has even been named ‘Blue Monday,’ and is said to be the day in the year when we […]

From Canterbury to Callan

  Two weeks into my Irish adventure I found myself in a bar in Callan telling the story of how Peter Brabazon and I had been at a convent in England in 1991 (the second time we had met at a convent!) and had sneaked off one evening to a pub by a canal to […]