A pleasant walk to work each day. London canines are impeccably trained. No fighting, no biting. I encountered no dog mess on the sidewalks or capacious lawns, and have come to believe that these city dogs have been taught by their owners to poop in proper doggie toilets. The entrance to the fairgrounds was marked […] More >>
Archives for May 2018
To Be Continued…
After a week in Cork we headed to Sherkin Island, a windswept jewel of a place just off the southern coast of West Cork. Just to maintain a professional aspect to the trip, I stopped in to see Holger at The Time Traveller’s Book Shop in Skibbereen. But he wasn’t there, so we ate at […] More >>
Just a Dream
Anne Marie and I are back in Cork City, just around the corner from where we stayed the first time we came here, in the summer of 1998. My first book, Gone Boy, was about to come out, and Anne Marie didn’t want any part of the publicity that was sure to ensue. She decided […] More >>
Oops!
This is the main entrance to the Whaling Museum. It used to be a quaint little place, but now it has expanded to occupy an entire city block. Whaling museums flourish in inverse proportion to the whales themselves. I forgot to blog about this past weekend’s show at the New Bedford Whaling Museum! Sorry. It […] More >>