In the summer of 2003, I got drunk for the first time and met one of the most beautiful women I will ever know. It’s time to tell that bittersweet story.
An Irish Adventure
That summer, my friend Matthew and I traveled to Rosscarbery, a small town on the southern coast of Ireland. It’s just as picturesque as it sounds. Ross has a stunning ocean lagoon, rolling hills, country pubs, and a Christian cathedral with roots dating back 1500 years.
We moved in with the Daly family who lived in a 17th-century farmhouse attached to the historic 15th-century Castle Salem.
The Dalys raised horses, farmed fields, worked with stone, and ran a bed and breakfast in their beautiful, yellow home. Matthew and I went there to write our first book, which we did. We stayed in William Penn’s room, the bedroom where the founder of Pennsylvania and a nonviolent Quaker lodged when he visited this house back in the 1600s.
I will never forget the bus ride south from Dublin through Ireland’s lush countryside to Castle Salem... Read More