“Mr. McManus, are you really Irish?” my student asks skeptically, knowing as she does that every Irish person she’s ever seen has been white, and also knowing that I’m not even remotely white.
“Of course I am,” I reply, with a twinkle in my eye.
“But how can you be Irish?” she asks, trying not to say what everyone else in the class is thinking.
“Haven’t you heard of Black Irish?” I say, and it ends the debate. Continue reading “Black Irish”
Every once in a green moon, I wonder what it would have been like to have a traditional wedding. But then again, I didn’t meet my wife in a traditional way, we didn’t date in traditional fashion, and our first few months “together” certainly weren’t traditional either. So if we had gotten married in front … Continue reading Paving Our Own Path: Getting Married, The Un-Traditional Way
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