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These are some of my most requested stories and rants:
- Make Hay While the Sun Shines- Dysfunctional Irish Family- how my dad finally won a fight with my mother.
- How to Borrow an Egg- The ludicrous, though entirely true, story of borrowing an egg from the parish priest.
- Questions About God- 6yr old me asking questions about God and ultimately driving my mother mad.
- Clinton, Lewinsky and my first day in America- A tongue-in -cheek reasoning of the Clinton, Lewinsky affair using my first day in America as a means of explaining it.
- Rant- An attack on the “Here we are now entertain us” mentality of many modern Americans.
- Communication: Hammer and the Chicken- True account of my friend ordering chicken at a deli meat counter in Germany and the subsequent breakdown in communication.
- Cigarettes- A personal history of my love affair with cigarettes.
- Drinkin’ with Jesus- An imaginary drunkfest with Jesus and the advice he gives me while under the influence.
- Potatoes- The importance of the humble spud in world affairs.
- The Problem with City Life- What not to do when your cat drops dead and you live downtown.
- Hitch Hiking- A tribute to all those who pick up the great free-loading road riders of the world.
- What I miss about Home- The glorious madness of Irish Drinking Culture.
- Tog Out. You’re On!- A Lost weekend in Prague
- A Sort of Home Coming- A classically dysfunctional Irish family Christmas
Raised in Castlepollard, a small town in the middle of nowhere in the middle of Ireland, I came to the U.S. in 1990 and after a seven year employment odyssey finally found my way to Landrum Middle School in Ponte Vedra where I teach Language Arts. I was a founding member of the Atlantic Shakespeare Company and while with the company I played the title role in Richard II, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Antony in Antony and Cleopatra and Feste in Twelfth Night. I also played the title role in the Playboy of the Western World at Atlantic Beach Experimental Theater, as well as Amundsen in Terra Nova and Dr Watson in Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of the Sign of Four at the Limelight Theater in St. Augustine.