Dublin

April 11, 2016

Take 5 With Award Winning Filmmaker Doug Blush

World Premier: Accomplished Documentarian Brought Beyond Laughter and Tears: A Journey of Hope to CIFF Doug Blush and I first met back in 2012 when CIFF […]
April 7, 2016

Beethoven Rolls Over to Cleveland

CIFF Welcomes What Would Beethoven Do? One of the great joys of the Cleveland International Film Festival is exposure to great culture. Mostly, this culture is […]
November 23, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #13: Writing Seminars – Part 1 – Hay House, Wayne Dyer and Cheryl Richardson

“Writing isn’t something I do. It’s something I am.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer . Along the corporate life trajectory writing has kept me consistent company, decade […]
November 19, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #12: 2013 – Sinking Ships, Cortés Style, Part 2

From January till ~ June of 2013, I lived 6 months in a monastic lifestyle: work, work out, write, sleep, repeat. Once in a while I’d […]
November 17, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #11: 2013 – Sinking Ships, Cortés Style, Part 1

2013 built on the loss of 2012. And more was to follow. Pruning the dead leaves of one’s life is a critical component to letting the […]


February 12, 2014

Dublin Day 8: Viking Power

On one of the windiest and rainiest days since I’ve arrived, realized that with the gloomy weather, either I was going to sleep though the entire […]
February 11, 2014

Dublin Day 7: The Men of Oscars at Night

This evening, after an afternoon of tending to clients, revisited Oscars Cafe and Bar. And I’m glad I did. Unlike my Sunday afternoon discovery, today I […]
February 10, 2014

Secrets of the Blood: Irish and Ukrainian DNA Converge

It’s Day 6 here in Dublin and I spent most of today working on client resumes, emails, proposals and invoicing. It was a day at the […]
February 9, 2014

Dublin Day 5: Oscars Cafe & Bar

It’s Day 5 in Dublin and today I woke up to a cooler and windier morning. Shouldn’t complain – upper 30s is at least 30 degrees […]
February 8, 2014

Dublin Day 4: Light House Cinema

Sometimes, serendipity happens. As it turns out the apartment from where I’m renting a room during my entire stay here is located next door to the […]
February 7, 2014

Dublin Day 3: Walking to the Waters

It’s Day 3 of my Celtic adventure and today, upon waking up and looking outside the floor to ceiling window saw something incredible: the sun! For […]