My primary care physician is Web MD. I made the switch after our first doctor’s visit in Slovakia. As Pat recounted his medical history, the doctor stared back quizzically and then admitted, “I don’t know what any of that is.”… Read More ›
Expat life
Resolutions and Second Chances
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 ›
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 ›
The World In Between 