Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

‘The view from the stage in Fermoy was 6,000 years long.’ — Thomas Sheridan

Stolen Weather

SATURDAY

I was born on a sunny day. I had a friend one time whose wife was a bit contrary, so whenever she was rude or abrupt with someone, he would take them aside and explain: ‘She wasn’t born on a sunny day.’

But I was born on a sunny day, and every one of my 67 birthdays has fallen on such a day, and that’s my story and I’m sticking to i…