A few months back when I asked for your help, you showed up in the comments like kind neighbors with casseroles at the house of a sick person. Would you do it again? Can you tell me about your family and audiobook listening? I’m starting a chapter on audiobooks for my book. (My book! Remember [...]

I had such grand plans. Plans to post from each new place we visited on our trip. (But we didn’t always have internet. And three of us with computers had to share we one Northern European adapter. Plus, there wasn’t always time for blog posts: we were on vacation.) I had plans to keep a [...]

Sort of how it sounds when the locals pronounce København. Known to us as Copenhagen. Luckily almost everyone in Copenhagen speaks English, because all of our combined understanding of Spanish, French and Italian helped us not a whit in Scandinavia. People spoke Swedish or Danish around us, and we couldn’t snatch out even a word here [...]

We only had three days in Stockholm. I wish we’d had more time; it’s a gorgeous city, and there was so much more to see. Someday. My mother’s grandparents emigrated from Sweden to Minnesota. It was only after I did a little internet research on the family that I learned of the great emigration of [...]

Can you guess? And if you haven’t figured it out yet: I’m a little behind on posting, due to lack of internet connection, and having to take turns with a single power cord adaptor (sharing with teenagers who need their international Facebook fixes!) But I’m hoping to post more photos in the next few days, [...]

Things are so busy here that I’m a little dizzy. My oldest graduated from high school on Sunday. We had lots of family and friends here to celebrate, which was lovely. Lulu had spent the prior month making a surprise documentary to show, about H’s filmmaking. It’s a wonderful project, with interviews and clips of [...]