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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 30: Falusi vendégasztal

Today was a good day in the village. Coming back from a long walk to the open day at the Buffalo Reserve, I walked by

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