Sept 2022 blog – September is always a month of magic, with the pages of a sun washed summer turning over and the sun soaked leaves turning red, all giving way to the howling winds. This is the season that reminds me most of my youth, football comes back on TV, school buses start toContinue reading “Sketching the dreams of past and future”
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A Banshee’s Bargain, an Irish ghost story
PART ONE I was sitting at the pub with a pint of stout, a traveler’s backpack nestled neatly under the barstool, reading a Yeats collection of poems about faeries. I was acting the part of a tourist, in between consulting gigs and taking the time to backpack around Europe. Despite my American appearance, I knewContinue reading “A Banshee’s Bargain, an Irish ghost story “
The Dog Days of 2021
The Dog Days of 2021, a hopeful blog rant from a jarring year, P.R. Carreo When the star Sirius pokes around the sun for the first time of the year, and is rising in the east at dawn. When August settles into her sultry heat, baking us into a faded polaroid of the previous month’sContinue reading “The Dog Days of 2021”
Sisyphus Goes Job Hunting, a reimagined Greek myth (Pt. I-II)
Part I: The Rock & Roll King The tall, thin ghost of a king gasped in pause halfway up the cliffside, calloused hands planted firmly on his craggy old boulder, weighing the risks to wipe the salty sweat off his sun-squinted eyes. He looked at his raisin-wrinkled arms and down to his loose tattered tunic.Continue reading “Sisyphus Goes Job Hunting, a reimagined Greek myth (Pt. I-II)”
Stranger Solstices, 2021 Dublin Off-Lockdown
Stranger Solstices, 2021 Dublin Off-Lockdown, a blog Strongly beckoning was some plot to celebrate the upcoming summer solstice in a few days, in some way befitting of my time here in Dublin. I recall fondly that first year realizing that, despite the longer darker winter days, there was an upside in June here that wouldContinue reading “Stranger Solstices, 2021 Dublin Off-Lockdown “
The Matrix of Living Abroad
Like a shadow in your mind… there’s always been that feeling that something was just a little off with this small pocket universe you’re living in across the pond. Life in Dublin feels like a bubble of your life in D.C., everything is just a little different… a little stranger. It feels often likeContinue reading “The Matrix of Living Abroad”
Japanese Tickle-Fights & Other Stranger Dangers
2020 July – It’s unfathomable to think not every person gets the uncontrollable urge to tickle a sullen Japanese stranger on the sidewalk whenever that all too common scenario presents itself. Not that you would have to act on that urge, but to deny its presence in the moment, just seems like you’re lying toContinue reading “Japanese Tickle-Fights & Other Stranger Dangers”
Around the Lake’s Bend, Goes My Father
2021 February – I’ll always remember the last time I got Dad into a kayak. I was home in Rochester from Ireland risking a visit to see my parents just this last September. The lockdown had been grim enough already on the emerald island, but the real kick in the teeth was that any semblanceContinue reading “Around the Lake’s Bend, Goes My Father”
Dishwashing and All That Jazz…
2021 March – You wait to choose your moment perfectly. The timing is critical around this dinner table. The excitement of your family gathering charges everyone up. The booze from happy hour intensifies the joy and the red-faced storytellers around the room. The energy carries over into a celebratory dinner, moments of raised wine glasses,Continue reading “Dishwashing and All That Jazz…”
Entangled States with an Irish Addict
Entangled States with an Irish Addict, a Rovers & Risings series tale It can be a strange chain of events that plunge you into someone else’s struggles. It’s still early spring days of 2020’s quarantine, sitting in your Dublin city centre flat, and hitting that familiar crossroads for the week between being productive andContinue reading “Entangled States with an Irish Addict”
Paul Carreo 