Hot Child in the City

Spending my first Thanksgiving in America

I’ll see how I recover after cooking my first turkey and watching my first Thanksgiving Parade and go from there.

Simon Cowell's 'X Factor' comes to New York

New York's winter style and American Eagle’s new store

It’s bizarre for an Irish person to be relieved to see the end of those long summer days and the beginning of bitterly cold, dark nights but after the hottest summer ever recorded in New York my girls and I couldn’t be happier.

The truth is that Irish women know how to dress for the cold. Our pale legs, sweaty faces and un-toned torsos don’t fare so well in the blistering heat. Accessories seem like just one more item to carry on our backs through the desert that is a Manhattan summer and humidity does no favors for our naturally frizzy hair.

The first sign of the chill coming in mid-September brought out jackets and socks that had been abandoned since the previous March and now that it’s officially winter the long coats, scarves, hats and gloves are a delight to snuggle into.