Let me begin

It's been a year and a half since my green card was approved and I flew out of Dublin Airport. With the hope of starting my career, I left behind all my friends, my family, my martial arts students and my town. I didn't set forth alone. My wife, Marcy, who hails from (Way) Upstate NY, would be my guide, my confidant and my family.

There's been good and bad, and many goals still to achieve. But we're very happy. I looked at this as an adventure. What amazes me is how different America is to other cultures I've experienced. If nothing else it has helpped me to figure out who I am, and how I fit into this world.

We returned to Dublin to visit family and friends in the Jan.'05. There a friend asked how I was doing? I told him I had grown; I feel a little wiser as many things have been put into perspective for me.

I'm an Outsider Looking In at what's called the last Super-Power. A European in America; an Irishman amoungst Irish-Americans; from a land that is so left of american liberalism, it doesn't even register. This blog will examine my views of the culture-clash; and maybe I'll learn a little something sbout this place and myself as we go.