November 17 15

It was almost exactly a year ago that we started boxing up all of our belongings in order to stage and sell our house, which poured over into packing and moving, which then became living at my inlaws, which has finally ended in the current stage, living with only partial…

November 15 15

As the child of  busy and hard-working parents, I spent a lot of my childhood (and my adulthood too, of course) watching movies and television. And it was almost always a learning experience. For example, I learned to count in Spanish and that llamas go to the dentist from Sesame…

November 10 15

When I picked up Isabella from school she was in tears. She buried her head into my chest and from her muffled sounds I could tell she wasn’t upset about her government test. But she didn’t want to talk about it. We walked to the car and instead of driving…