Hopefully this is not news to you, but Thanksgiving is an American (and, to a lesser extent and on a different day, Canadian) holiday. The Dutch celebrated the arrival of Sinterklaas a few days ago, and before that, there was St. Martin’s day, which apparently involved children going door to door with homemade lanterns made […]
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first impressions
It’s a very humbling experience to be here. Trenton described it as hitting the reset button, and he’s exactly right. More or less every day, I have to work up the nerve to leave the apartment to go to the store around the corner and complete a transaction in a language that I barely know. […]
Read more...Adventure Begins Today
Today marks Day One of my voluntary stretch of unemployment. I’d meant to spend the day at Bernheim Forest, hiking the Millennium Trail, but I didn’t get my backpack together last night and didn’t want to set out this morning unprepared. It’s going to be hot, and take at least 6 or 7 hours, so […]
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The countdown has begun in earnest, and in fewer than 60 days, Trenton and I will be residents of Nederland. I haven’t truly allowed myself to absorb that information and luckily there are plenty of details to keep track of and plans to make distracting me from feeling the feelings that I know will come eventually. […]
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