Like nomads, but with more stuff

I've been here about 10 days now, more or less, and so far everything is both exactly as I expected and totally different. There's ...

The car is on its way. The house seems bigger with so much less stuff in it. In the last few weeks I said "so long" to friends an...

A couple of weeks ago we had a very "eh" kind of weekend. We had a lot of chores to do after having neglected the house for sever...

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...