05 Monday Nov 2012
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It was 2002, I believe. Ten years ago. Traveling alone in Italy with five days to spare, I pointed the rental car north and discovered, unwittingly, Lake Como. George Clooney hadn’t purchased Villa Oleandra yet (that came a few months later). They say the lake changed after Clooney’s arrival. I hope it hasn’t changed much, because we’ve just rented an August apartment there.
31 Wednesday Oct 2012
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We’re “expatriates” (or, more properly, we’re about to be), we’re not “ex-patriots.” We still love our country, but to put “ex” and a hyphen ahead of something implies consummation (or, perhaps, dispatch), like “ex-husband.”
31 Wednesday Oct 2012
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We have returned from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It was hot and muggy, but the alternative was rain in Portland. In Portland when it rains, there’s no escaping the wet. In Puerto Vallarta when it gets hot, there’s always the Pacific. And the margaritas…
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24 Wednesday Oct 2012
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We are here scoping out a place to spend next winter, after our European adventure. We hope to land here just about one year from now, in October 2013.
11 Thursday Oct 2012
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I have had my phone number for decades. I must be one of the few people who actually likes his cell phone service – so much so that I haven’t had a land line since the Reagan Administration.
08 Monday Oct 2012
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That’s me sipping a frappé – a Greek iced coffee.
It was really hard to decide between the diples, kataifi, koulourakia, and melomakarona, which had the added problem of sounding like a disease, so we just left all the pastries alone.
05 Friday Oct 2012
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The optimist claims his cup is “half full.” Usually. But today, this optimist says “half empty.” And it’s not a cup, it’s a bag.
01 Monday Oct 2012
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We’re popping open the champagne tonight because we reserved another apartment today – this one in Chania, on Crete, in Greece, for the month of July, 2013. No, we’ve never been there.
28 Friday Sep 2012
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What a moment in life!
That’s the kind of thing we said when our first child was born, or when we ate our first bite of Duck a l’Orange, or when we did our first hit of acid. (Forget I said that. I admit to misbehaving a bit, and listening to Hendrix, and living ten miles from Ken Kesey, but acid? No. Not acid. Not that I can recall…)
25 Tuesday Sep 2012
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Remember that Carly Simon song, “Anticipation”? It was cleverly used in a Heinz ketchup commercial in the late 1970s. It has been running through my head lately.
We…
Can never know about the days to come,
But…
We think about them anyway.
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