“I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they’re a drunk or a thief” – Woody Allen I know, I haven’t written a blog post in two months… buuuut here I am! I’ve just been living my best life – I had Rosski come to…
IF you’re feeling thankful
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” – W.P. Kinsella It was my three month anniversary in New York this last week and it was Thanksgiving the week before. So, I decided that I’d celebrate by writing a post all about what I’m thankful for in New York after three…
IF you’re uninspired in NY
“You never know who you’re inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.” – Amaka Imani Nkosazana I’ve been quite uninspired lately with the job hunt and the world coming to an end via Trump as POTUS and what not. I haven’t been feeling up to writing any blog posts; in all honesty, it’s because I haven’t…
IF negativity is winning
“New York will eventually dull your sparkle and you’ll become a little bit more jaded like the rest of us…” The quote today is something that someone said to me after I had only been here for two weeks… the quote is peculiar today because today’s post is a little bit different than usual. I’m…
IF you get to Galway on a Saturday
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – H. Jackson Brown I think a lot of people move…
IF you need New York ideas
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you’re the one who will decide where to go.” – Dr. Seuss. I’ve been here a month tomorrow. Yes, the fastest month of my life!…
IF you’re cruising around Cork
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake…” – Francis Bacon The weekend before I moved to New York, I went on a road trip with my sister, Hannah to Cork. We went…
IF you’re new in New York
“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” – Nora Ephron I landed in JFK on Thursday night after a nightmare travel day. My…
IF’s New York notions
“I guess that’s what makes life special. It’s unexpected. Scary as hell. But in the end, totally worth it.” – Rachel Van Dyken When I decided to walk the Camino de Santiago, I wrote down all of the reasons I was doing it in a blog post. I did that to explain to everyone but…
IF you wander to Westport
“Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.” – J.R.R. Tolkien This weekend, my sister and my mother…
IF you’re considering the Cliffs of Moher
“As you wish…” – Westley [The Princess Bride, William Goldman] One of my favourite movies (and books) of all time is The Princess Bride. If you haven’t seen it, please know that you’re missing out and do everything in your power to rectify that as soon as possible! It’s a wonderful movie with a cult…
IF you’re killing time in Kinvara
“Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.” – George Bernard Shaw And that’s exactly what I am going to do, I am going to…
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