No Map

I just finished listening to This American Life (Episode # 380 No Map). There’s another amazing story - if you’re into amazing stories. It’s about a family who adopted a little girl from Samoa. Lots of twists and turns. The whole program is about people doing things where there’s no “map,” i.e. no one has really . . . → Read More: No Map

Back in the Saddle

I do not know what I would have done if Alex had not offered to shepard me through getting a self-hosted blog. I would certainly have gotten another Blogger blog or I would have gone to…what are those other ones? Typepad? Wordpress.com? This one is WordPress.org, which is different.

So what happened? I’ll write a shortened version . . . → Read More: Back in the Saddle

Back from the Abyss…

It’s Saturday afternoon and I just got this set up - with the help of Alex - and I’ll be . . . → Read More: Back from the Abyss…

Hemelvaart

Spring in the Netherlands is a whole string of national holidays for months. Lots of odd days off that I’m not used to. For instance, today is Hemelvaart [pronounced: Hay-mul-fahrt] - Ascension Day. Hemelvaart and the rest of these religious holidays are a holdover from when the Netherlands was a religious country. . . . → Read More: Hemelvaart