My Birthday / Orlaith’s Graduation – Part 1

Since I knew I had to spend my birthday in Connecticut on Saturday, I decided to do some New York City-style celebrating on Friday night. It started with Happy Hour at the Galway Hooker. For anyone who was at the indoor Big East track party in February, you’ll recognize the name. I met some friends [...]

Will and Fancy take Manhattan; Joey takes the stairs.

I was getting a bit worried last week that life in NYC wasn’t proving to be blog-worthy, but that was before this past weekend. My friend Will and his wife Francoise (henceforth to be known as Fancy) came down for the weekend, and I knew that any time spent with Will would be an adventure.
On [...]

Neever Gonna Get It Right

My parents spent a long time picking names for my sister and me. Their main criteria were that they be traditional Gaelic names and that they couldn’t be shortened or ‘butchered.’ I got Niamh (Neeve), and my sister got Orlaith (Or-la). They didn’t want anyone coming up with lame nicknames for us either, so I [...]