Wow – how has it almost been 6 months since we’ve arrived in Indonesia? In some ways, it seems like we’ve been here for years – time is a funny concept in the tropics and on the equator: the sun … Continue reading Settling in & first visitors
To say this has been a busy year summer would be an understatement. After finishing up our month-long adventure, we had all of 2 weeks to prepare for another move around the world. Oh, whom am I kidding? Of course … Continue reading Welcome to the Ring of Fire
Having lived abroad pretty much the majority of my life, I am used to things getting lost in translation. For instance, there was that time in my native Germany in the 1980’s when I worked with a language instructor from … Continue reading Lost in Translation
We’ve been hearing about “social distancing” so much over the past few weeks as this pandemic is shaking up life as we once knew it. Of course it’s natural for us to feel many different reactions and emotions as we sort out how to deal with this crisis: grief and longing for our old lives and routines, hope for answers, frustration and despair when reading news, endless scrolling through news and social media, absent-mindedness, to name just a few. And then there’s the new space-time phenomenon in which last week seems like it was really months away because so many … Continue reading Social Embrace
The Chinese New Year is upon us where, this year, we will welcome the “year of the rat” so we thought it appropriate to officially say good-bye to the “year of the pig” in the best fun, travel way we … Continue reading Ringing out the year of the pig
Kids with Diplomatic Immunity 