Friday, September 16, 2011
Since telling people that we’re soon to be back on our native continent, I’ve had many people ask (on- and offline) whether I was going to change the title of this blog. A discussion of this blog’s title has been kicking around in my head since I first started it. My varied attempts to write […]
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Here are some pictures from the past month, focusing on our friend Dennis’s visit and the move out of Rue de l’Hôpital 20. There are, of course, also lots of pictures of Sammy: http://www.permanent-expatriate.com/august2011/
Thursday, August 25, 2011
We’re coming back to North America! This is a much-redacted stub of the big, detailed piece I wrote on the subject, which Martha felt was too detailed for right now. Anyway, we’re relocating to Richmond VA for the end of October. Our flights are booked, our stuff is packed, and we’ve steeled ourselves for another […]
Life here continues as it has for the past few weeks. We continue to wait for final confirmation of our big news. Although significant bureaucratic hurdles have been cleared, the finish line is still up ahead just out of reach. This ongoing source of tension has been largely allayed by Sammy, who seems to become […]
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Today we’re observing one year in Neuchâtel, and all is well. Several weeks of familial illness seem to finally be coming to an end. Sammy is adjusting to his 2 mornings a week at crèche with a minimum of separation anxiety. Martha’s first annual work review went extremely well, with new opportunities and responsibilities coming down […]
This is the last batch of photos from the last several weeks: http://www.permanent-expatriate.com/cern-geneva-gruyeres2010/ In the interest of finally getting them online, I haven’t commented on the photo pages themselves. Please let my terse descriptions below suffice: The CERN photos are of the testing facility we toured, where new sections of the LHC are tested and […]
Here are my pictures from my weekend in Lyon. I very much look forward to going back with Martha and Sammy. http://www.permanent-expatriate.com/lyon2010/