One Country at a Time
Posted in All in the Family, California Dreamin', Puppies on Aug 16th, 2010
This weekend was adventure filled. Just hours before we (finally)(after seven months of living here) had our housewarming party, two puppies arrived on a plane. (It sounds like the setting of a made-for-TV movie, no?) My poor mother: While they were as well behaved as could be and didn’t make a peep, the little boy, [...]
Posted in All About Me, California, California Dreamin', North America, San Francisco, USA on Aug 2nd, 2010
You leave the house in a tank top and skirt at 8am and return at noon in a wool coat and scarf. (Also, add to the list: You’re smart enough to carry layers with you wherever you go.) Your calves are the thickest part about you thanks to streets called Gough, Vermont, Divis and Lombard. [...]
Posted in California Dreamin', North America, Photo Friday, Workin' Hard for the Money on Feb 5th, 2010
I’ve had a lot of California-centric Photo Fridays lately but that’s because a) uh, I live here (duh) and b) even after two years, I still kind of can’t believe that this is my home. I mean, really, hardly a day goes by when I’m driving along the coast or passing a new city site [...]
Posted in All About Me, California Dreamin' on Feb 4th, 2010
On Feb. 4, 2008, a slightly nervous Southern belle-cum-New Yorker, who was about as jittery as a coffee addict on his second week of withdrawal, boarded a JetBlue flight taking her away from all things she knew and which comforted her to a vast, unfamiliar landscape called California. She had no jobs lined up, no [...]
