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True Stories, Half Truths, and Life’s Funny Moments

  • Warning: Coffee is an Addictive Substance that Can Affect Your Marriage

      In my native habitat, I am aware I spend too much money on café Americano mistos out of paper cups.  If the first step to “recovery” is awareness then I am aware.  I have been, however, extremely unmotivated to change.  My husband, a perplexing mixture of generosity and frugality, wishes it were different.  But […]

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    July 12, 2012
  • A Recipe for Comfort Food: Dutch/Italian Style

    This is a rainy day, two people out of three maybe coming down with a virus, kid-friendly comfort food dish.  Or so I thought.  A spaghetti sauce bottom is topped with a baked rotini and aged Gouda cheese topping.  This is what it looks like ready for the oven: First the spaghetti sauce.  It works […]

    July 9, 2012
  • Two cell phones, one ipad, one tablet, three kindles, three ipods, a nintendo 3DS, and three lap top computers versus one husband.

    Oh boy, there’s nothing like three days of single parenting in a foreign city where I don’t speak the language to erase all thoughts of early morning meditation!  I have a renewed appreciation for my husband and the skill set he brings to our family.  Things went quite sideways…no hot water in the flat, my […]

    June 29, 2012
  • Milan: A Morning Meditation

    To travel well requires a receptively blank mind.  Quiet the inner chatter.  Silence the inner critic and accept what comes my way.  So with my husband away on business and the kids and I in Milan for a few days, I start my morning… Milan, 7am.  At my kitchen window.  “My” elderly couple across the […]

    June 27, 2012
  • Jet Lag. Jet Bag.

    Jet lag.  When the local time says one thing and my body says another.  Arriving in Milan in a fog we find a taxi big enough to fit us and our bags.  A miracle, really, since we had been under the impression we could each take two checked pieces of luggage we have a herd […]

    June 19, 2012
  • Top Ten Ways I Know I’m Going on a Long Trip…

    …my anxiety level is in charge of me instead of the other way around and I realize one way to deal with it is through humour. All notion of serving “food groups” (you know, fruits and veggies, grains, protein…) to my children goes out the window in favour of emptying the fridge and freezer.  We’ve […]

    June 9, 2012
  • What this is, what it’s not, and maybe why you might read it…

    Or not.  This blogging- is such a narcissistic enterprise.  In researching (’cause that’s what I do) “how to blog”, I’ve read a few blogs.  OMG…I guess I really don’t “get it”.  But, I am going to figure this out as I go.  So this is what I know so far:  this blog is not going […]

    June 4, 2012
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