HeyJaredNotes from a Damp Island
Not a(nother) guide to Ireland but stories to make you thankful you don’t live here, told by an admittedly homesick Kentuckian.
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How about brunch then a funeral? (opens the original)
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“I’ve just arrived in Dublin and I already like Cork better,” my little sister said as we walked out the front door of the hotel.“You’re speaking Frank’s love language,” I said, wishing my Cork born-and-bred husband were there to hear her.I’d left him at home — in Cork, where he’s always happy to be — to spend a few days in Dublin with my sister, who’d flown in from Nashville that morning.We’d tried to check in to our hotel at noon, but our room wasn’t ready. Meaning it would be a couple of h
When our viral dance nearly ended in divorce (opens the original)
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“I saw ye on Trevor Noah,” a friend said to us as we kept our social distance from her on the street. “That was really cool.”This was back in 2020. It was the early days of lockdown, and for one fleeting moment Frank and I were really cool. All thanks to a video that went viral.We hadn’t set out to be really cool (as we all know, that would have been really uncool). Like the rest of the world, we were simply trying to amuse ourselves while sheltered in place.Shortly after Ireland’s first lockdow
Ode to my Irish trolley (opens the original)
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Frank and I don’t own a car because neither of us drives. So every time I walk into Cork City Centre and buy something, I have to haul it the entire eighteen minutes home.These walks would be a healthy habit to cultivate if I didn’t have the tendency to confuse my bicep strength with Thor’s.You’ll frequently find me struggling to lug home stacks of library materials, half a dozen canned foods, bulk bottles of cleaning supplies, and BOGO tubs of peanut butter.Which wasn’t a problem when I owned a
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