2023 Grateful 21: Old and dead
Occasionally, I plan. Like last weekend. I wanted to sleep in. Just one morning when I didn’t have to get up and do stuff. The
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2023 Grateful 22: Stories and Wine
Some time ago, we had the good fortune to be introduced to the folks over at Fehérvári Borbirtok in Somlószőlős. Since then, when we’re in
2023 Grateful 23: Some man, for one man
We buried Boss a month ago today, June 19, three days after he took his last breath – or as my brother might say, sank
2023 Grateful 24: Unsolicited solicitations
I’ve been getting too many comments and messages from people I’ve never met nor do I care to meet. They range from the sublime to
2023 Grateful 25: A cucumber dinner
When the invitation came in, I didn’t read it very carefully. It was in Hungarian and I was in a hurry. I completely missed that
2023 Grateful 26: The search is over
Finally. The search is over. After years of hopeful questions – well, the same hopeful question – someone has delivered. Ön hagymakarikák házi készítésű? Are
2023 Grateful 27: JFK in Ireland
‘Why did you never make a play for my son’, she asked me, all four foot ten of her seventy-seven years looking up at my
2023 Grateful 28: Is it a poppy or a poppy?
A field of poppies, I said. Red and purple. I’ll take you to see them. I said it in Hungarian though. Piros és lila mák.
2023 Grateful 29: Dublin pubs
There’s a certain something about the older generation of Dublin pubs that has a magic all of its own. The nooks. The crannies. The sheen
2023 Grateful 31: Opinions
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands
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