Marrying my Spaniard, after quite a long time together, means making permanent what had already felt timeless. I love this man!
Life
The prettiest place you’ve never heard of
A late summer respite in the Spanish Pyrenees, with biking and bagpipes. It was great to get to someplace cooler and more remote and then to feel like… home?
So familiar, and also entirely new
I felt at home in Edinburgh – one branch of my family tree in vivid color. Also whisky, walking, and history, dolloped with some Harry Potter flashbacks.
Glasgow on my mind
A lovely trip to Glasgow, complete with Highland coo, networking nerves, gargoyles and wordplay.
What’s your name?
Inside my fevered mind, thinking about my career and my identity, while I figure out what’s next after the gutting of USAID.
Superbowl perspective
The Superbowl is over for another year. People are happy or sad about the outcome, based on their life-long affinity for one team or another, or sometimes based more on whim. If someone won last year, that team is sort of automatically served up as the Goliath that...
Missing Miss Raya Buckets
Miss Raya Buckets stepped over the Rainbow Bridge earlier this year, where the can opener is always spinning. I sure miss her!
Spin the globe: Bogota
Back to Bogota, for the first time since 2016. Feelin the love, reliving the past, catching up to today. Filled my soul right up!
Exploring Campania
Snippets from explorations around the capital of Campania and environs, and not a lot of talk. These are 1000-word scenes for sure.
Napoli, Nuova
We’re just getting settled into Napoli and finding our way around these enormous hills! So far, so very good, including standard-setting pizza.