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- Have I gone over to the dark side – or just become part of the future?
- About the kindness of strangers
- 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.
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