It’s been months since I’ve written regularly for this blog. When I started this (a few weeks ago) I couldn’t even remember the last post I’d written, so I just re-read it. September seems like ages ago. Some things have changed, and some have stayed the same, so here’s an update. The punchline: We’re still … Continue reading Not quite getting back to Mongolia
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Where we are right now
At the Salton Sea, January 2021 Well, we are still in California, and now hope to get to Mongolia during the summer, one year later than planned. I haven’t written for a while because first things were too chaotic, and then I had to recover, and then I just didn’t feel like thinking about it. … Continue reading Where we are right now
Post # 101: A non-food post
Barley soup Everyone seems to be posting their meals on social media these days. It’s like the boring old days of Facebook, when everyone posted photos of their restaurant meals. We’re all trapped at home now (in the US, anyway), so no one is getting those restaurant meals anymore. They are trying to replicate them … Continue reading Post # 101: A non-food post
Realizing what we’ve lost
Really, she's photo bombing. Start of school, 2018 It’s August now, and usually I/we start to think of the coming school year. I took July “off.” I wrapped up the sale of our house, did some administrative stuff (you never realize how many people and organizations have your address until you move, especially when you … Continue reading Realizing what we’ve lost
An origin story
The only photo of the four of us (my brother had not yet arrived), Thanksgiving 2006 I realized the other day that traveling runs in my family. I took my first international trip before I was three years old, to visit family in Switzerland. But my mother, the reason for that trip, had also traveled … Continue reading An origin story
Pandemic Summer
Our patio We are now four months into our pandemic lives, counting from the time that California pretty much shut down in mid-March. It has “opened up” again, at least in some ways, and some people have gone back to life as close to usual as they can make it. Emma and I have continued … Continue reading Pandemic Summer
Waiting for Mongolia’s borders to open again
Brand new Monarch butterfly A new post is long overdue. A lot of things have been happening, and I’ve been having a hard time writing. Between the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the movement that’s responding to George Floyd’s murder by police in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor’s murder by police in Louisville, and Auhmad Arbery’s murder by … Continue reading Waiting for Mongolia’s borders to open again