Thursday, August 12, 2010
This is me trying to pull this blog out of mothballs. The last several weeks have been quite busy. Here are some highlights: Visitors! We had our friend from Maui here for 6 weeks, and also 2 friends from Toronto here for 10 days. Travel! While our TO friends were here we spent a weekend […]
Here are pics of Sammy and Neuchâtel from the past month, broken into two batches for your viewing convenience: http://www.permanent-expatriate.com/june2010-1/ http://www.permanent-expatriate.com/june2010-2/
Martha is now safely on her way back home and Sammy is enjoying an unusually long nap. I thought I would take this time to post some random bits: It’s difficult to find non-white bread here without nuts and seeds baked into it. (Or, more accurately, the only brown bread I’ve found without nuts in […]
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Here are some pictures from the last few weeks: http://www.permanent-expatriate.com/march-april2010/
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
I’ve divided the big block of new pics into 2 themed groups. Here is the first, focusing on our slowly evolving new home: http://www.permanent-expatriate.com/house-assembly/
After 4 weeks of madness, things around here seem to have settled back into a happy routine. Here’s a terse summary of the recent past: Spending every Saturday, all Saturday, at IKEA for 4 weeks straight. The Saturday just past was the first that we were not there. 6 IKEA deliveries. The total mass of […]
Two batches of photos in as many days? Zut alors! Here are pics I took yesterday of our premier Mars holiday: http://www.permanent-expatriate.com/premier-mars-2010/
Here are pictures from the past week or so: http://www.permanent-expatriate.com/late-feb-in-neuchatel/
Today is a holiday in the canton of Neuchâtel, celebrating the anniversary of joining the Swiss Confederation. We awoke this morning to a cloudless sky. This is by far the best weather we’ve seen here thus far. Further, Sammy awoke this morning the happiest baby ever. He’s been up for 2 hours now and hasn’t […]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
A well-worn critique of the North American variety of multiculturalism is that its purported multiculture is, in truth, an anti-culture where capitalism destroys meaningful cultural values and leaves only economic interest behind; the melting pot as a vat of acid. (My Canadian friends might argue that this is a valid critique of the United States, […]