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Who are they? Where did they come from? And more importantly, who decided we needed their advice? Years ago, if you wanted to know something, you asked…
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The Irish Gift for Misery
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” W. B. Yeats supposedly wrote that, and it is hard…
The Breakfast Revolution
Breakfast when I was a child was a simple affair. There was toast. There was nearly always toast. Toast, of course, was less a food than a…
Sports Footwear
Before Nike, Adidas, and all the other multinational companies convinced us we were one pair of runners away from Olympic glory, we had these. The humble plimsoll.…
The Chair of Office
On my first day at work, I was still waiting for my school exam results. This was awkward because I had been promised a job as a…
The Minority Who Iron Bedsheets
I recently discovered that only somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of the population irons their bedsheets. This came as a considerable shock to me, because I…
The Cycle of Life
There seems to be a natural order to family life. Little girls often adore their fathers, and little boys think their mothers can solve almost anything. Hence,…
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