I remember snow days growing up in Denver, Colorado with a nostalgia bordering on romanticism. I remember awaking in the morning and first noticing the absolute and almost deafening silence that a few feet of snow brings. Out my second story window I’d see tree branches wilting to the ground under the weight [...]
My grandfather Leo kept up a one-sided correspondence with various American presidents throughout his lifetime and today I found this telegram he had sent May 29, 1962.
If you cannot read the copy: it is addressed to “President J.F. Kennedy” and in it he wrote:
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY. WITH THE NEW FRONTIER HAVING CREATED A [...]
Returning from the post-election United States this past week I felt something I’ve never felt before: Pride when showing my passport. Americans aren’t always well received outside the US and we feel thoughtful about that whenever we travel. On this journey homewards (to Spain) however I felt myself walking a little taller, holding [...]
Our first year or so in Spain was in many ways exhausting. The simplest acts of shopping or doing any kind of transaction took amazing amounts of patience and energy. As we are settling in we are taking on increasingly difficult tasks in Spanish, like buying a car or going before a Spanish [...]
This afternoon as I embarked on a spray painting project that has left my hands ridiculously blue, I listened to the “shannon” list in our iTunes. After a while Brian came and asked “WHAT are you listening to? This is the craziest play list I’ve ever heard.” Really, it’s not a list [...]