Almost ready to go
Alright! Wahoot! The plane to London (then Bahrain then Nepal) takes off in 48 hoursish! Let’s go! Let’s get that 23 hour trip started! The living room floor is covered in backpacks, stacks… Continue reading
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Lessons from the bike ride home
Is there always something to be learned from the world around us? For example on my bicycle ride home just now, an hour between growing fields of corn and livestock, which included a… Continue reading
Last Walk Through Lier
I’ve been talking Dutch classes in the mid-size town of Lier since January but tomorrow will be my last day. Four times a week I get off the train, track two, walk down… Continue reading
Welcome to the world, little one.
What a remarkable day. Yes, every day is remarkable, but today was different, for one glaringly obvious reason. Today was little Ella’s birthday. As in day of birth, as in today. K’s goddaughter, and… Continue reading
Just call me the beerman. On second thought, don’t.
K used to work in a bar, where she expertly served beer, coffee, beer, wine, beer and a few other drinks (most of which were beer) to the clientele, which in Belgium includes… Continue reading
What is charity? Someone please tell me.
What is humanitarianism? Charity? Aid? How do you do it? Fundamentally, how do you help the “under-privileged” masses of the world? I would definitely not use words nearly as grand as “humanitarian” to… Continue reading
I thought this was about a job interview, but it’s really mostly the trains.
Brussels has three train stations, all connected in a nice straight line (unlike some of those other, sillier cities where to get from North to South you have to go East for an… Continue reading
Happy Mother’s Day!!
Happy Mother’s Day! So, Mother’s Day was started in the US by women’s peace groups to reunite families torn apart by the Civil War. Mothers whose sons had fought and died, on both… Continue reading
Another day in paradise
Yesterday was a good day. It is Easter vacation for the schools around here, which means no morning traffic, which means K has an extra 20-30 minutes in the morning, which yesterday combined… Continue reading
Man, I ate a lot of food today, or, where are the prostitutes? or, warning.
Are my blogs boring as all hell? “Today I rode a bicycle home from work and it was cold.” Yeah. Not sure what else to write. I want to interview prostitutes. Is that… Continue reading
