<taps mic> Is this still on?

June 8, 2019 Karen Huber

My back garden smells great. It’s not so much the flowers, but the smoked peppers and tomatoes Matt is grilling for our early-June-but-still-feels-like-March Saturday chili. When we left for America last summer, we should’ve known Ireland would experience tremendous heatwaves and glorious sunshine. This year, though, while we’re happily home in Dublin for the summer, we’ve got cool breezes and intermittent rain showers. My children still leave the house in jackets, gloves and winter hats. We debate the merits of a morning or evening boost of heat. Our clothing is not yet on the line.

But we’re home - right now, for now…

Saturation Relapse and a Selfish Cure

April 10, 2018 Karen Huber

First, a confession: I’ve been lazy about writing. Since we received our Irish citizenship, I’ve wondered how my written perspective would change, or rather, if it even should change. Am I still an expatriate, a foreigner, a blow-in, a transplant, and now an immigrant?

Here + Now (Winter 2018)

March 1, 2018 Karen Huber

Here is cold, snowy, blizzardy Dublin. The whole of the country is shut down, a curfew is in place, and we are riding out Storm Emma and The Beast From The East. And now is a few months past due on a family, life and work update. Kids are home, Matt's away, a LOST marathon is on the telly...

A Dispatch from Cough City

October 4, 2017 Karen Huber

My child is sick, his third absence from school in as many weeks. He coughs all night long, something stuck in his throat but no idea how to expel it. He's 8, but middle-of-the-night reason does not yet work, so we do the shuffle: water. sink. cough. spit. repeat.

Here + Now (Midsummer 2017)

June 30, 2017 Karen Huber

Summer holidays officially start today, but our June was so full of merriment, half our July will be single-parented, and our actual holiday just two days squeezed into a work trip in August, it doesn't really feel like summer at all. Not really. So I'm taking these...

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