By Post:

• After all these years, there’s still a first time
• Things you find when you’re looking for something else
• A Luddite in love with E-books?
• I just bought a time machine [thoughts on my approaching obsolescence]
• Some things take a bit longer than we’d like
• To everyone who told me to write a book – I’ve done it.
• Not proofreading your work? It’s like farting in church.
• Tell me a good story. And please, please, tell it well.
• Did I become the punchline of bookseller’s joke?
• Happy Bloomsday!
• Dublin in a day – by the book?
• Modern Times in Dalkey, sans Damon, Enya & Bono
• I wasn’t wearing a mask. Neither was she. Were we beyond the Pale?
• Blowing in from the beach – and other places, too
• Once upon a time…at a castle near a campus
• How do we let in the light?
• Who do you listen to – your heart or your mind?
• Remember crowded rooms?
• Does Easter bring you more memories than Christmas?
• Familiar places, faces and feelings – in places I’d never been before.
• You know those days when the stars just don’t align for you?
• The isolated man – surrounded by family yet far from home
• Remembering Dublin City in the Old Times
• Is this the next generation of pubs?
• Did I find better stories outside the bookstores?
• No, it was NOT a dark and stormy night.
• When someone’s more than a Valentine
• Is there a future for old-fashioned love?
• I went looking for fiction – and found a calamity-in-waiting
• Darwin never said it …
• Rental car blues – and bookstores, too.
• Can fiction tell us what nonfiction can’t?
• Hopping into my déjà vu time machine
• If you were thinking of a White Christmas…
• A thought-no matter what you’re celebrating or not celebrating this year
• How do you feel about these long Northern nights?
• Is this the year to unchain yourself?
• Have you survived Black Friday?
• Too much good food, not enough time or big enough stomach
• Between covers or not, stories make the world go round
• A Yogi Berra Guide to Belfast
• Derry – old walls and old-fashioned book lovers
• What happens when you use all your senses – except your mouth?
• A community’s living room happens to be a bookstore…
• I felt guilty leaving you. Really, I did.
• They’ve Paved My Paradise…
• Good bookstores. Great restaurants. Beautiful scenery. What more do you need?
• If you can’t trust your memory or the internet, who can you trust?
• I cheated – or did I?
• I’m in trouble.
• Like a kid in a candy store
• In the beginning was the word…
• Are your e-books biodegradable?
• Should people who buy books online be forced to wear a big red “A”?
• What makes a good airport/airplane read?
• Some people go to church. I go to bookstores.
• Yesterday: autumn leaves drift by my windows. Today: it’s just a screensaver.
• Forget family trees. I was rooting in family fields.
• It’s GDPR time. Here’s what you need to know.
• You can’t eat the scenery
• When will we ever learn?
• Janus was the Romans’ two-faced god – but wasn’t a politician’s patron.
• Who am I this time? A Taoist or Dowist?
• “I can but no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”
• Is it just me – or did your 2017 evaporate before it began?
• When circuit boards replace synapses…
• Lots of time to spare? Fly Norwegian Air!
• A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a park –
• Hello, I must be going.
• It’s summer. Who are all these people in ski parkas?
• I wanted to spend money, but there was nothing worth buying
• My Shakespearean Problem
• I was caught in the spin cycle of a bot machine
• Is uncaring incompetence the new norm?
• I’m learning another new language
• Are you using or being used by religion? Here’s how to tell.
• Why I spend less time on FB these days
• A Tale from Banking’s Dinosaur Days
• Trump & friends – where life imitates art
• Hearing less but listening more.
• Book me father, I don’t think I’ve sinned
• Slowly ripping off the dressing – and hair, skin and scab, too.
• Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes…
• My year of living carless
• Remembering Dublin City in the Old Times
• Is technology’s edge dulling us?
• Technology and its Discontents
• Brain-drained & exhausted by everything? Here’s what I’m doing –
• Pub Crawling & Other Pastimes
• Honor the past, but leave it there. It’s time to live in the present.
• Has modern times’ clutter killed our attention span?
• He had 2-1/2 hours to save my soul
• How do you fight fires set by firemen?
• What’s the point?
• Less stuff = more life
• Why do we laugh at newspaper hoarders and admire money hoarders?
• Family Values
• Good Morning! I think.
• I remember clouds
• The Hitchcock scene in my shower
• What a kid’s view of Captain Kirk taught me about life.
• “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!”
• Angry Voters – grown older, not up.
• Peter Pan’s evil twin won’t grow up, either
• Cocoons have burst. And it aint butterflies taking flight.
• Learning the language
• Need drama? Drop the context.
• Is Bigger Better?
• I’ve been podcast!
• Too big? You’ve failed.
• Which tribe gives you power?
• Like Trump or not, he’s an American tradition
• Goldilocks and the Irish bankers
• A home may not be a house.
• If you believe the headlines…
• Living on Ireland Time
• My Circle Game, redux
• All My World’s a Stage
• Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lug.
• If you love the smell of latex in the morning…
• Coming home
• I came upon a child of god
• Freedom!
• Are we better than our garbage and rubbish men?
• What’s the point of traveling?
• How to insult people with a single word
• Passion is more than a good-tasting fruit
• Do people in love drive you batty?
• Have we become a society of amateurs?
• “The rich are different from you and me.” Or are they?
• Too tired to care? Here’s one reason why.
• To err is human. To really screw up…
• Living life is like owning a boat
• Walking with Rod Serling
• Tis the season for real people, not corporate people
• Hello Edinburgh, I must be going. I’ve stayed too long, but not long enough.
• It’s that wonderful time of the year, except…
• Dateline Amsterdam: Life in interesting times.
• Lighttime, meet nighttime
• Almost heaven.
• Too many books. Too little time.
• I’m going into mourning, then I’ll celebrate
• We didn’t buy the farm, we just lived on it with great neighbors
• Dandelion wine, boa constrictors and other friends
• Like to eat, America? Thank an immigrant.
• America’s Big D – for education
• Twenty years in one place–Part 2
• Me, spending twenty years in one place?
• Thank you!
• The Road to Hell Is Paved. Period.
• “Why can’t we all just get along?”
• Do radio songs trigger your memories?
• I remember Barney
• Human storms and other natural catastrophes
• Frustration all around
• Stopping to smell the cactus
• Dead Bug Touring in Roadside America
• What kind of life refuses to live? Is virtual life life?
• What I didn’t see on last summer’s vacation…
• Consequences – Intended or Otherwise
• Choose your facts. Carefully
• Remembering the “good old days” of American healthcare
• How self-contained can you be?
• When was the last time you had the head cold from Hell?
• If you’re alive, your prognosis is terminal.
• Healthcare Between the Lines
• Rambling On
• When our memories exceed our dreams, the end’s already here
• It was 20 years ago today…
• Are fear-mongers the only thing we have to fear?
• In Our God We Trust, All Others…
• Full Moon Magic in the Rockies. Almost
• Leaving the USA. My ticket says one-way.
• I’m dematerializing.
• Reading this on a desktop? You’re a dinosaur like me.
• Fear stays home, watches TV. And becomes more scared.
• In the Old West, the law said “Don’t take your guns to town.” What’s more important in America: facts or good stories?
• Paving Paradise – When the gringo trail becomes a tourist turnpike
• Catholic priests – notes from inside the tribal compound
• Send money, guns and…exit visas
• Sullivan in exile
• Home: refuge or prison?
• Home was a basement and a city’s sun
• How do you draw the sound of snow?
• M-16’s, minefields and bar fights, oh my!
• Where nobody knows your name – or wants to.
• Lost my passport – and had a great day!
• When – and how – does a tourist become a traveler?
• Sharing our public and private selves
• My Book of Mormons – surviving a visit to OZ
• Is American Youth Wasted? – 4
• Is American Youth Wasted? – 3
• Is American Youth Wasted? – 2
• Is American Youth Wasted? – 1