December 23, 2011
What I didn't say in my holiday letter is that there is so much that never makes it to the page. No one wants to read about your heartbreaks and disappointments and struggles and mistakes. We carefully craft the news of our year to suggest our positive outlook, highlight our endearing offspring, and nuance our hopes and beliefs for the future so they seem similar to everyone elses.
December 22, 2011
Goodness from December 5-11, 2011
Monday: the fear invoked by the screaming baboons
Tuesday: lac Léman and the Alps
Wednesday: Giselle’s connectable charm
Thursday: tartiflette
Friday: Strasbourg’s Christmas decorations
Saturday: nice kids – but I mean, the nicest
Sunday: el vino de la risa – grown, bottled and drunk exclusively in Pontarlier
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December 22, 2011
Abelisto showed me a new app for creating lists and notes. You can share the notes in a number of ways, including posting to Blogger. So this is my test using Slide notes to create and upload a post.
December 21, 2011
My kids got a disco strobe light recently. A friend decided it was just what we needed to christen a large space that we have that seems to scream, "Dance Party!"
We do dance. I dance, the kids dance, Big Man dances. Ok. Big Man dances in the I-am-a-fun-dad-and-won't-be-a-stick-in-the-mud sort of way, but he does dance. However, he loves to exaggerate the white man's overbite, and fluidity is not part of his game. Still...he dances.
December 19, 2011
Most years I can't wait to get to my holiday letter. I like updating in a self-deprecating, newsy sort-of-way. As the month cruises by, I get cards and holiday letters with little notes in them that say, "Looking forward to your letter". I like that others look forward to reading as much as I do writing it.
But this year I really struggled.
Generally, I like to write what I might like to read. Hinting at the downside suggests that no one ...
December 16, 2011
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December 6, 2011
The kids love getting the Christmas tree. We go to the same tree lot every year--there are singing decorations and a mass of people in a heated garage drinking and tying things on wreaths "artistically". Between gulps of PBR, they remember to ask our kids if they would like a candy cane over the noise of the chainsaw that is trimming the trunk of our tree. What can I say? I am a sucker for tradition.
December 2, 2011
Goodness from November 14 – 20, 2011
Monday: random houseguests, breaking up routine
Tuesday: when people tell me I’m improving, even if it’s just to be nice
Wednesday: midweek poteando
Thursday: the thoughtfulness of my 1batx (CE) class
Friday: eating fresh, salty, scrumptious fish in a sociedad
Saturday: wafting air through open windows
Sunday: talking like abuelas with Jone and Ido
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November 30, 2011
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