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Flowers and Music
Not long ago, a friend was lamenting to me about how tedious elementary recitals are. Little piano and violin students plunking and...
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Europe 2007: April 14
A day of rest, recovery, last-minute shopping, and…packing. None of us wanted to think about the next day's departure;...
Europe 2007: April 13
When we first began planning this trip, Porter's one goal in Switzerland (besides visiting Janet) was the Jungfraujoch experience,...
Europe 2007: April 12
What to do, now that we are back in Switzerland? Let's visit another museum! This time it was the Skulpturehalle...
A Ring Tone for Andy F.
Andy B., I now bestow the honorable title of "Andy" upon you since you have been so devoted to my blog. So as to avoid...
Maitland, Florida, 2007 or Salem, Massachusetts, 1692?
This just in: middle-aged men have no business stopping to chat with young people. After all, the young and their elders...
Europe 2007: April 11
After tearful goodbyes, we traveled with our host (who had business in Paris) on an early morning TGV back to Gare Montparnasse....
Europe 2007: April 10
Today was another beautiful day. We've had so many since arriving in Europe. The week before our arrival was so cold...
Europe 2007: April 9
Awaking before the rest of the household, I slipped outside to explore the grounds in the peaceful early morning light. Just...
Europe 2007: April 8 -- Easter!
When our friends asked what our Easter traditions were, my immediate reaction was, "total exhaustion, following a glorious church...
Europe 2007: April 7
Having slept off our Thanksgiving dinner-style museum orgy, and packed our suitcases for departure, we were ready to indulge in another...
Europe 2007: April 6
Ah, to wake up in Paris, and eat breakfast in the café next door! So what if croissants/bread, orange juice, and...
My Sunny Sunday
Since both my sister and my mother have posted about their Sunday adventures I figured I’d add mine to the bunch. Our...
Europe 2007: April 5
Transition! We took the tram to the train station, where we bought drinks to go with the food we had bought yesterday to eat on...
Sunday Adventures
I thought our Sunday was exciting, until I read about the Daleys' ! It was Sunny on Sunday here, too, at least for the...
Quote of the Day
My beloved nerdy family subscribes to A Word of the Day . One would hope that would make me more articulate, but the part of the...
Mad Cow: It Was a Very Good Year
We had so much fun last year at the Mad Cow Theatre's Orlando Cabaret Festival : It Was a Very Good Year that it wasn't hard to...
Basel Through Other Eyes
In case you'd like a professional writer's view of Basel, this article was in Pittsburgh's Post-Gazette this morning....
Two Weeks at 3am
Forgive me. Has it been more than a week since I wrote?! Given that it is 12:45am and I haven’t been getting much...
Europe 2007: April 4
Today Janet was feeling the pressure of work to be done, and she decided we knew enough to be let out on our own for a while. ...
Our Little Slice of Europe
Perhaps Porter was missing Europe and our museum-overload, I don't know. But the Morse Museum is free on Friday evenings this...
Europe 2007: April 3
Janet's version is here . Today we made the most of both our tram passes and our Basel Cards, the latter providing us free...
Europe 2007: April 2
We slept late this morning but otherwise showed more effects from all our walking yesterday than from jet lag. Janet gave up her...
Update on Melissa Busekros
Melissa Busekros, the German teen kidnapped from her family by government authorities because she was being homeschooled (see my...
Europe 2007: March 31 - April 1
As I mentioned before , we recently returned from a delightful two weeks in Europe, visiting Janet in Switzerland and some friends...