This morning walking across town we saw a young girl walking to school with her parents. As they strolled, hand in hand, along the sidewalk just ahead of her, she followed, jumping up and down and running around them in circles. As she did so she kept repeating “I am Brave! I am [...]
The US National Spelling Bee is coming up soon, I know you’ve already got your TiVo set for it. I probably won’t watch, it embarrasses me that the kids in the contest can spell words I have never even heard of. I get reminded of how my Spanish could be better every day [...]
Milo has had a great week; he is walking for a minute or two at a time, falling down occasionally. He is still not able to walk up the stairs on our street like he used to but he can get around the house without a lot of trouble now. He [...]
Tax time, everyone’s favorite time of the year, at least in the US where taxes were due April 15. They aren’t yet due in Spain, I believe its late June or so. Taxes are kinda boring and never fun IMO, you fill out some forms, do some math and pay. Its doubly [...]
I don’t consider my name to be unusual, its very common in English. Sure some people spell it Bryan but everyone can pronounce it and it doesn’t stand out. Not so here.
It’s funny how many databases your name can end up in and how people interpret it. As [...]