Five Things to Do Before Your Wife Comes Home
Yeah, when your wife comes home after a prolonged abroad stay you better do some things to make sure your on her good side. It’s been seven months so it only made sense to think ahead, but these are good ideas even if it ha only been two weeks. Here’s what I’ve done:
1) Grocery […]
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Love Can Be an Acquired Taste
The following poem was my wedding gift for Caitlin. I figured it would be better than giving her some gaudy expensive thing, as gifts are something I gave to her frequently. This would mean more.
Reading it three years later it reminds me of the great pain of loneliness. Dating really sucked, and finding Caitlin was […]
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History
Thank you, Barack Obama, for changing our country for the better. You have accomplished much already.
Image from Democracy in Action.
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Remembering the Vallongue
I recently stumbled upon a childhood memory online: The Domain de la Vallongue. This is the winery in Provence, France where I spent my summers as a boy and teenager, and then later in life I spent a few vacations there, too.
My grandmother Muriel was married to the patron, Phillipe Paul-Cavalier, for more than 40 […]
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True Love
I just finished reading Thich Nhat Hanh’s “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart.” This little 100 page meditation simply changed my perspective on many things.
Talking about a powerful read on how to show and demonstrate love in your life. It all comes back to mindful presence, being there, not just in body, but […]
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Thoughts on Amsterdam
It’s funny how you mention Amsterdam to Americans and they instantly start making jokes about drugs or sexual debauchery. The city has a lot more going for it. Like always, whenever I return from Europe I cannot help but think that our country is so repressed in this sense.
In reality, this city is just the […]
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The Amsterdam Tryst
I’m off for a long, unscheduled weekend with Caitlin in Amsterdam (image by Macropoulos). Who knows what crazy, fun memories this tryst will bring? I promise you one thing, there will be no updates.
See you next week.
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A Time of Advocacy
It’s funny how things will bring you full circle. Last Sunday night my neighborhood almost got flooded with the severe rains that hit the Washington region. As EMS personnel enacted a voluntary evacuation (I stayed), I talked with my neighbors and collectively we had great fear.
We had been through this before in 2006. The catastrophic […]
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A Thousand Miles
My wife is away, and has been for four months with another two to go. It’s been hard. Thumbing through some music tonight, I remembered our song, A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. If we only knew then.
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Free Tibet Demonstration at Blogger Social
We had a lot of fun this weekend at Blogger Social, but in the middle of our collective play we took a boat cruise and stumbled upon this very remarkable and serious protest to Free Tibet. The following video shows the protesters at work. A word of warning: There are bloody, graphic images in […]
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And who took that stellar pic?