Home 6 Dec 2011 | 05:27 am

I am once again an American Mom in America. The flight home went surprisingly well for the first eight hours.  The remaining two hours were substantially less successful with the last hour being one ...

Paris was never forever 30 Nov 2011 | 07:12 am

This one's gonna hurt, posse.  It is time. People keep asking us if we're happy to leave Paris.  The answer is no, we're not happy to leave Paris -- in fact, we're quite devastated about it -- but at...

My feelings in pictures 30 Nov 2011 | 04:15 am

The inevitable list 19 Nov 2011 | 11:11 am

The first picture I took, taken the day we arrived.  January 1, 2009 I'm going to miss the little things about Paris: Hearing French all around me all the time. Being able to understand a slightly ...

I'm what would happen if Seattle and Paris had a baby 16 Nov 2011 | 09:18 am

Friends bought us that Seattle magnet over to the left years ago.  When we came to Paris, I made sure the magnet came, too, and found a prominent place on our teeny-tiny refrigerator.  I wanted to mak...

Greedy Hamster 12 Nov 2011 | 10:46 am

I'm antsy.  I have no idea what to do with myself.  I guess I'll just sit around and fret, freak out, and flail.  The calendar is filling with goodbye dates but I have little hope that adding immense ...

All by myself 8 Nov 2011 | 08:13 am

Alex left this morning for Seattle to start his new job.  He'll be there for almost two weeks.  I have been left behind to "organize" for the move and I think I'm doing a very good job -- the apartmen...

Croatian Men in Boats 4 Nov 2011 | 02:19 am

With our mental states quickly deteriorating in Paris, I'm going back to my happy place and posting Croatia Part Two.  Part One was a real hoot; you should go back and read it if you have a few hours....

Friends are important because who else is going to smack your ass? 2 Nov 2011 | 04:46 am

The violence in me is still strong.  There is very little that's going right in Paris.  We are idiot magnets of late; everyone involved in our move has the competence level of a zygote. The good news...

I am full of much anger today! 27 Oct 2011 | 06:58 pm

This could be it -- the day we all knew was coming, the day I finally snap and hurt a Frenchie. Our TV, Internet and phone have been turned off more than a month early as we prepare for our internati...