Three Things

Ireland recap, easy dinners, re-entry rituals

Greetings friends. I’ve returned from Ireland and though I’m always happy to come home, I am now acutely aware of how few sheep-dotted pastures there are in my everyday life, and how decidedly not-green New York can feel even during the first week of summer. (Happy that, by the way.) Some of this can be remedied by a stroll in the park, but for the immediate future, I’ll have to be content extending my Ireland dreaming through the Edna O’Brien novels I packed for the trip and never managed to crack. (Though I did finally wrap up Paul Murray’s epic 2010 novel Skippy Dies which, as promised, delivered on all counts.) Before we officially begin, I wanted to put three meals on your radar for the week…