Blarney

November 30, 2011 by Heather Lucier Stanley 2 Comments

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As far as touristy things in Ireland, I enjoyed this one a lot. I had heard about kissing the Blarney Stone, but had never learned why people wanted to kiss it.

Supposedly, after kissing the Blarney Stone, a person is given the gift of eloquence in speech. Who would not want to be an eloquent speaker? Most of us need help in this area. Why not kiss the Blarney Stone?

Let’s just say, kissing the Blarney Stone is exhilirating and scary. The germs from other people’s lips were the least of my concern. To kiss the Blarney Stone, we needed to lie prostrate several stories up on in the Blarney Castle and dangle the top half over our torso, head first down the castle wall, to eventually and rather quickly pucker our lips and smack it. The entire time an employee of the castle held our torso, waist and/or hips. What a great job for him, I thought.

My moment of kissing the stone was very brief. Next time I will do what a few others did and linger with the big open mouth pucker.

heather and alan

About Heather Lucier Stanley

Heather Lucier Stanley grew up in Central Massachusetts and lived in New England until she started studying at the University of Michigan where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature. In her early 20s, she moved to San Antonio, Texas and started studying business and accounting. In her late 20s, she became a Certified Public Accountant. She has held many varied and interesting business and volunteer positions: public accountant, internal auditor, systems implementer, project manager, business analyst, tax preparer and Austin Skiers board member. While traveling 35% for a position she held, she earned her Master of Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Phoenix. She is enthusiastic about learning and trying new things. A few of her passions are personal development, fitness, snow skiing, and travel. She is outgoing and real. She feels that success is easy to attain if the individual defines what success means to her and then has a plan to achieve her individual success. No two definitions of success are the same because each of us is unique and has something original to share with the world.
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