About

Hello Friend,

I hope today finds you smiling, and if not, I’ll send some happy Irish rain to make your flowers grow (if a bottle of “the black stuff” – Guinness – would be more to the point, I’m sure we can arrange that as well.  I’m here on the Green Isle for two and a half months, interning with a publishing company in Dublin, straying through the streets, traveling the rest of the country when I can, writing about these things I see and hear and smell and think.  And just so you know this person filtering you’re Ireland experience:

Anne (Annie, nickname caused by a misprint on a preschool roster) Sand (like the beach, a German name, derivative of Sanders, which means follower of Alexander, or so I’m told).  Raised in a small Ohio town for twenty-one years, and now an English major in beginning her fourth year of college.  Raised Catholic, if that’s important, though I tend to disagree with most of the details it teaches.  I also tend to go to Mass every Sunday.  I can’t seem to do otherwise.  I love to write, sing, paint, dance, go for walks.  I have a mother (Nancy), father (Jim/James), sister (Sara/Kat) and dog (Pippin/Fuzzy one/Little boy).

Read, enjoy, ignore, return.  This can be our pint together.

Many Smiles,

Annie