Greg came home with large rocks in his pocket today. He says he’s been doing that ever since he’s had pockets. I have witnessed it throughout our marriage. Rocks from the beaches. Rocks from the hills near home. Rocks from the rivers. These latest rocks encase a fossil of a large snail like creature, purchased […]
My Ice Cream Lady
Meet my very friendly and beautiful ice cream lady: I don’t know her name and she doesn’t understand English, but I consider her a friend. Iris, my language tutor, went with me to get ice cream tonight and helped me ask if I could take pictures for my blog. My ice cream lady made up […]
Road Work Taipei Style
This is what was going on just outside the gate to our apartment building today. Road work. They needed to dig up a stretch from the more major road, down through the lane. You can see from the photo below that they dug a few feet deep. When I left the building mid morning, the […]
The flowers that bloom in the … winter, tra la!
Thank you, Gilbert and Sullivan – now back to our correspondent in Taipei. I know its not the bleak, mid winter yet, but I’m having a hard time getting concerned at all. The weather does seem a bit unsettled, if you call vacillating between balmy mid to upper 70s and somewhat chilly, drizzly mid 60s […]
Shakin’ Things Up
Here are three disparate news bites from the last three days: Sunday evening, Greg and the kids were apparently feeling a little apartment bound and started bouncing off of the walls. More precisely, they were doing hand-stand push-ups. No, Greg was doing them. The kids were attempting to, but were spending more time learning how […]