Reflections on a Year living in Spain
Category Archives: Philosophizing
Immigrant
Tale of an Immigrant in Spain
Italy Trip 2021 Part 2: Cinque Terre
Part 2 of Our Trip to Italy 2021, La Spieza and Cinque Terre
Italy Trip 2021 Part 1: Milan
Part 1 of our Trip to Italy in September 2021 – Milan
I Miss Traveling (Part 2 of what I missed during Covid-19)
Me, in the back of a Uhaul, after having slept in the back next to an Apple Orchard near the Gorge in George, WA after a Radiohead show in the early 2000s
I Miss Museums (Part 1 of what I missed during Covid-19)
Covid-19 sucked, sucks and continues to suck for a lot of reasons, many of them highly important, including the loss of life. For those we have lost, I try to remember to celebrate their lives and thus live my life with importance, reverence and purpose, for them especially. For me, there are three things IContinue reading “I Miss Museums (Part 1 of what I missed during Covid-19)”
Routines
Vacation times are the best of times, no? Even if you are on a tour of the Balkans or cruise to the Caribbean or an African safari, where you have set things to do, you never have to do them. When we arrived in Gijón, it was over a year after the Corona virus hadContinue reading “Routines”
Long Looks
Many friends and family have asked Jesse or myself this question, once we said we were moving to Spain, but not working, “What are you going to do?” and they did not mean it rudely (at least I didn’t take it as such, but it seemed that they couldn’t fathom not having something to do,Continue reading “Long Looks”
Here Comes the Ocean
Jesse and I chose Gijón for a few reasons, but a big one is its closeness to the ocean. Growing up near Lake Michigan was nothing like living by the Pacific Ocean, which I was lucky enough to live next to for the last five years in Long Beach. Alamitos Bay was calming and IContinue reading “Here Comes the Ocean”
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