A few weeks ago I took our dog to the courtyard on our street to sit in the sun. As I sat on the stone wall and looked around I saw a very stiff, very dead, animal leg – sticking up out of the dirt. There was a time (I call it “before Spain”) when [...]
This is just one of the gems I dropped last night in conversation. Repeatedly. For some reason, for the entire night, I was confusing the words for “parents” and “walls” (padres and pareds). I don’t know why since “padres” is one of the few Spanish words I knew when we first moved to Spain…. Another [...]
I get asked who I think the next US President will be often these days. The world news page of the daily paper often includes updates on the race, and since most of the news for the last few months has been about Obama and Clinton, many people are confused when my answer to their [...]
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 Strong!”. This [...]
What is the “dobleve” thing anyway, its a weird name for a website. Besides lots of typos (one time causing us to “lose” our packages in the black hole of customs for a month because they had the wrong email address), we also get questions about why we chose this name for our site. [...]