Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
“Houston HOT” said the t-shirts my dad brought us back from his interview in Houston 17 years ago. We packed up and left New Jersey for the Lone Star State and here we are (this week, anyway). Hannie, Mum and I spent a day downtown now that Han has a real grown-up job with a…
Nothing says “home in Texas” like the annual Katy Rice Harvest Festival. No one at Katy High School drove a tractor to school (that I know of), but it would be safe to say this is a community that identifies strongly with its harvesting roots. Or, you know, a good leafy-camo purse. Anyone? Anyone?? Or,…
The temperature’s rising on another hot October Saturday morning in Texas. What makes this one different is the clump of 3-year-olds pushing each other over and mushing a soccer ball around an itty-bitty field. This is way more fun to watch than actual soccer, which has rules and stuff. Only rule here: no hands! So…
Grilled bell peppers, deer sausage and chicken for dinner with a spinach salad tossed with raspberry vinaigrette, dried cranberries, toasted pecans and feta. Mango for dessert and accompanied by my dad’s favorite California red from the Folie à Deux winery. We had this wine at Thanksgiving and now it always reminds me of family and…
A brief note about our Space A layover in Washington, D.C. en route to Germany: Space A is a lot like air travel in the 50s in that it takes longer and has more stops. Like in all of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels—Bond has to fly from London to New York to Miami to…
I-10 West—all the way home.View Larger Map The 958.9-mile drive wasn’t nearly as painful as I thought it would be, despite two yowling cats in the back. Dinner and breakfast amongst friends I’ve missed in Pensacola, several Alexander McCall Smith books on tape, traditional driving food of a DQ Blizzard, some nice sunsets and some…
I started this the other day…and then the movers came and took our internet distributor.Mary Poppins has nothing on us when it comes to moving with the change of the wind. Today was the first day to hint at fall with cooler weather—perfect because we had our door propped open all day for the movers….
