nostalgia

Passing Along Manual Life Skills – Another Lost Tradition?

May 17, 2012

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Rob Mahan

Passing along skills from generation to generation is a strong theme in An Irish Miracle. As a ten-year-old boy on an Ohio family farm in 1955, Alex is excited to learn how to weld from his father, Jake, so he can fix a broken plow. An older Alastar passes along the skills of caring for…
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Love of Countryside

March 19, 2012

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Rob Mahan

I was raised in rural Ohio. It wasn’t a farm, but it was a big enough plot to have a large garden with room left over for pickup football games on crisp fall days. The maple trees added an element of suspense, and someone always went home a bloody hero. There was a little creek…
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Simpler Times, Simpler Places

December 6, 2011

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Rob Mahan

An Irish Miracle spans over a half a century and two countries. With all the strife in the real world today, the stories in it offer a respite, a brief glimpse of simpler times and simpler places. Born in 1945, life for twin boys on an Ohio family farm is filled with hard work. The…
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