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It’s been a full week. I’m not complaining – actually it feels good to come home on a Friday evening and collapse after a busy five days. I didn’t return to a home tonight, though. I returned to a disaster. Code Red. Five alarms. The works. So, before settling in to go over notes for [...]

I present to you a cornucopia of thoughts – a virtual buffet, if you will… 1) My apartment smells really beefy. I made meatballs for lunch and they were nice, but I wasn’t planning on spending the evening with said meatballs. 2) I wrote a long post last week including my thoughts on several hot [...]

The weather here in Santiago has turned springlike and sunny; it’s the kind of weather that doesn’t allow for staying inside. I just got back from a superbly enjoyable Saturday morning walk (which included a Dunkin Donuts stop midway through – yum!) As some of you readers know, back in Houston I had a Saturday [...]

Speaking of homes… There once was a cute little house in Houston. This house was nothing special on the outside, just bricks and mortar and overgrown sago palms. This house had a heart, though. This house had character. Robyn and I moved into the house on the corner of 14th and Michaux in August of [...]

Home is where the heart is. Or perhaps where your family is. Or your friends. Or is it where you grew up? Or where you currently live? Home is where you hang your hat, or so they say… Home, home on the range… Home. It’s an interesting concept that’s been on my mind as I’ve [...]

I’m sitting in the airport at the beginning of a day which is going to be a marathon of travel. Although I haven’t had much time yet to think through my trip, I can already say that despite the exhaustion and running about, I’m so very glad I came. Despite the summer heat and re-learning [...]

The last class has been taught. The final student evaluation has been sent. The semester is over. Time to take a little break. Time to dig those summer clothes out of storage. Does anyone have some sunscreen I could borrow?

Even as I begin to write this, I feel a little silly. But isn’t it silly that we feel silly sharing something because someone else might think it’s just… silly? So I’m not going to let that stop me – I want to share something that profoundly impacted me last night. Warning: it might sound [...]

You know, I’ve been thinking. We don’t often get to do the big things – the giant change-the-world type of things – very often. Even when one moves to, I don’t know, say… South America… life becomes surprisingly normal. And I don’t know about you, but for me it can be somewhat of a bummer [...]

So, it’s interesting. This started out as a blog to chronicle my new journey to Chile. In the beginning I wrote quite a bit about new cultural experiences (can you believe they put avocado, tomato and mayo on a hot dog?!?) and various other musings. Although I still muse on occasion about these interesting bits [...]