Disrupting the Rabblement

Can’t see the video? Click here. If you grow up in Ireland, you’re likely to adopt a hatred of the English. That’s just how it works. You never really understand why — something about 1916 and fields of barley — but you hate them anyway, just like all your classmates and your father’s classmates and [...]

Can’t see the video? Click here. A friend once told me how she wanted nothing more out of life than to find a great partner and settle down. I asked her to tell me what her dream guy would be like. She listed off a few things. Among them: he’d have to be adventurous, and [...]

The things you own, end up owning you. That quote is from Fight Club, one of my all-time favorite movies. It sums up a lesson I first learned about six years ago, when I was stuck working in a department store in Ireland, having dropped out of college and dreaming of one day living and [...]