"No more fooling around. Set an egg timer for forty-five minutes, and don't get out of the chair until the timer dings. Even if you sit staring at the page the entire time, you're ingraining a habit. Chickens and fraidy-cats may begin with five-minute segments." The Pocket Muse, Monica Wood
I visited the Aran Islands in 2005 and found myself at a place beyond my imagination. Housed on the edge of a cliff (hundreds of feet above the ocean) on the island of Inishmore was a stone fort aging back to the Iron Age—Dún Dúchathair (The Black Fort). The stones of these forts have no mortar; they're just standing on their own without any ropes or fences. When I visited this fort, early one morning, a dog was roaming around, sniffing the rocks, and when I ventured a little closer ...