On the 2:30 a.m. feeding & Love

January 8, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

Sometimes the world is less complicated at two in the morning. Floating in a sea of darkness and an ocean of quiet there is less of a tempest in my […]

From Delta Flight 1600… somewhere over the Eastern Seaboard

January 5, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

    Airports are like a country themselves.  They have a distinct government, culture, language and economy.  Once inside the network, you’re sheltered from the rest of the world in […]

The Journey Continues…

January 4, 2011 in Guatemala, North America, Travelogue

In which the Grandparents leave, Hannah makes some money & we say goodbye…

Happy New Year

January 1, 2011 in Guatemala, North America, Travelogue

The New Year did not come quietly to Guatemala.  I don’t think it ever has.   It began with a lot of squealing children hugging the daylights out of Dennis, […]

Waiting for Godot… I mean… Dennis.

December 31, 2010 in Guatemala, North America, Travelogue

It is 6: 43 a.m.  The sun has just tipped into the crater and the first rays are lighting the tips of the banana trees and making the huge, apricot […]

New Year’s Eve’s Eve…

December 30, 2010 in Guatemala, North America, Travelogue

On Grandpa’s birthday & Hannah’s injury…

A Christmas Day Crash

December 26, 2010 in Guatemala, North America, Travelogue

in which we celebrate and have a minor Christmas catastrophe…

Merry Christmas Messages

December 25, 2010 in Guatemala, North America, Podcast, Travelogue

Merry Christmas to all our friends and loved ones, and our friends’ friends and loved ones!

Christmas Eve

December 24, 2010 in Guatemala, North America, Travelogue

The house is quiet.  Candles are lit in the fireplace.  Hannah is rubbing Grandpa’s feet.  The Christmas lights are twinkling and Tony’s reading of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is […]

The Grandparents Are HERE!!

December 23, 2010 in Guatemala, North America, Travelogue

We stood in the cool darkness of a Guatemala City night, swimming in the ocean of smells and sounds that is the capitol city, huddled together for a little extra […]