Right, Welcome to Lisbon! Sorry for the long hiatus after our previous post from England, We Are Those Merry Wanderers, but Sarah and I decided to return to the US

Okay, so we’re plagiarizing and compromising Puck’s line to the fairies from Midsummer Night’s Dream, but Sarah and I are headed toward the Cotswolds and the land of Shakespeare, so

In this day and age of the virus, so many of our friends and colleagues have had to quarantine or isolate when they arrived in a new country—or even sometimes

Sarah and I bid a fond Saturday morning farewell to Chennai recently—we were surprised and delighted by the dozen or so friends who were waiting on the street to wave

Who would ever have believed that our three plus years as expats abroad would witness the world slowing to a crawl in so many ways as people all over the

As we all work our way the through the uncertainty of new virus fears, restrictions, and lockdowns; of parceling out our sambar and our tender coconut water and our red

Although Sarah was disappointed that she had to cancel her presentations at the Association of Music in International Schools’ (AMIS) annual conference in Hong Kong last November–due to her first

Sarah and I had been told we needed to visit Kerala ever since we moved to Chennai nearly three years ago. Of course, we’d rarely even heard of Kerala–the state

So, what could possibly top our first few magical days in Himachal Pradesh, that included sharing a contemplative, rainy hour with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, the Tibetan Buddhist nun who meditated