I haven't really said much about it, but Galway is lovely. Ask anyone. The Irish recommend it to tourists and nationals alike. I like it because when I walk from campus to town along the canal, the ducks and the swans paddle beside me, their wakes weaving and their beady eyes never leaving...

Perhaps because I like to describe myself as a writer, a creative type, I have a flair for the dramatic. The little girl in me that shuffled around the house in socks making the clicking noise of high heels with her tongue, now clicks around the streets of New York in an Audrey Hepburn trench and a Carey...