Like nomads, but with more stuff

For the first time that I can remember, there were no illnesses or previous commitments, yet we did not spend the long weekend at the cab...

    (stock photo) Washington DC is a culinary wasteland. Yes there are some pockets of excellent restaurant food, usually food from E...

I recently read an article about how spending time in nature makes people happy ( here 's not the article I read, but something else on...

After just about 36 weeks, I took my language exam and passed.  This means the American government feels safe sending me out to Germany to ...

Sometime around the pre-election season I had to quit NPR and started listening to podcasts instead. As I got further in German I started l...

Yesterday in class we practiced some strategies for handling certain parts of the test. I hadn't been working on these particular parts...

In addition to spending our days in the classroom slogging through the language, we also have other opportunities to play with German.  Two...

We've coined a new term tonight.  I knew I was making a meal the kids have steadfastly and continually failed to enjoy. So, I pulled ou...

We aren't really a fast food family. McDonald's is something saved for special occasions like being on the road, birthday dinners (...

One of the kids, kicking a tree: Look, I'm a footpecker! Terry to me, after he shared an article and started a conversation about...