Photo by Unseen Studio on Unsplash I love being in school. Always have, always will. It’s all my favorite things in one–mental stimulation, community, personal growth, and rigid structure. So it will come as little surprise to you that I’ve already enrolled in school...
Ughhh. Today sucked. It started with a 3 AM wake-up from throbbing back pain of unknown origin. All I’d been doing was sleeping, which clearly is a liability now that I’m middle-aged. And DANG did it hurt. Took some aspirin and flopped between various sleeping positions for a...
On Saturday night we had the great privilege of seeing a Kazakh Opera at the stunning Abay Opera House. This 82-year-old building is one of a dozen or so theatres in Almaty but is THE premiere place in town to see opera, ballet and classical music. The theatre is named after...
We found out last year that Nia would need braces. We intended to start in D.C., but she still had some baby teeth that needed to come out and the Orthodontist wasn’t keen to put on the braces and not be able to see it through to the end (we had max 1 year in D.C. and braces are...