Recently we took a pre-Thanksgiving week of vacation in San Diego. On Saturday morning, we went to Barrio Logan, a Hispanic neighborhood we’d learned about online. While we’d read interesting things about the area, we didn’t see much happening, other than a really...
It appears that my mastery of English is a long-standing tradition…. Last week I mentioned Henry’s genealogy research. Over the past year or two, he’s discovered a handful of fascinating tidbits about my family. It turns out that a large, Southeast regional department...
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Do you have big plans? Have you ordered the flowers, picked up the chocolates, made dinner reservations at a special restaurant? I have a proposal for you—in light of my blog post last week about refugees and immigrants. What...
It’s been a rather disrupted week at our house. Somehow the wax ring on our bathroom toilet came unsealed and slowly leaked water under the tiles, so we didn’t know there was a problem until the baseboards started to change color and develop mold…. We’ve made lots of...
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