The Tower

Author's note: I am headed to Ireland early next week with my mother Kate--my sister Ann will join us, along with many cousins, aunts, and uncles for an informal family reunion. I haven't been back to the ould sod in 21 years, and I am pumped--for brown bread, the best cream in the world, 19 …

Thursday Thunk: “I Thunk it Up”

When I was a wee girl, I wrote a lot of poetry. Unlike Charlotte Bronte, physical evidence of my brilliant young mind is lost to the ravages of time and disinterested adults (apparently! But I am not bitter...). In first grade, so the story goes, I presented a poem to my beloved teacher, Miss Kinnin. …