A cold glass of Guinness keeps the cook company while the rest of the meal comes together. Cabbage wedges and carrot chunks ...

Now it’s March — the Meyer and eureka lemons, navel oranges and kumquat trees in my yard are loaded with fruit.

While there I asked if it was true, as the St. Patrick legend says, that there are no snakes in Ireland. Clare, the youngest of the daughters quickly assured me that there was not a snake to be found ...