The marines have a saying: We do more by 8 AM than most people do all day. I should have been a marine. My entire life I have embraced a near maniacal adherence to the “early to bed, early to… Read More ›
Expat life
Self Doubt
As my skills grow, my self-confidence fades. Why is that? When I was young, I learned quickly. My brain was an empty sponge; easy to fill. I forgave my mistakes with no self-flagellation. Now, mistakes send me into a tail… Read More ›
Thanksgiving
Today is Thanksgiving, our third since moving to Europe but the first which I will work. Without family or friends, football games or turkey; today is just the fourth Thursday in November – a Hungarian workday like any other. Burning… Read More ›
No Country for Dreamers…
We tackled a poem during a recent lunchtime English conversation class; Dreams Deferred by Langston Hughes. Not being terribly poetic myself, I stumbled upon it googling “Poems for ESL students”. Poetry can be tough to interpret in a second language… Read More ›
Seasons of the City
Living in a small mountain town in Colorado, I tended to measure the seasons to the whims of nature: the bugle of rutting elk; snow blanketing the mountains; hummingbirds flitting past my window; a piping hot sun beaming down from… Read More ›
The World In Between 