And while Summer, Fall, and Spring have captured our hearts for various reasons, Winter stands alone as the absolute best time to visit our town. Perhaps it’s 15 years of living in the dreary Seattle area. Perhaps it’s that feeling of being wrapped in all the coziness. Perhaps it’s just the fluffy stuff and all the cool things you can do in it. Or maybe it’s watching our puppies bound through it with joy. It’s probably all these things.
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Putting My Money on You
This time, the statement from my wife – “You need to go to the ER” – did not come in the form of a question nor with a hint of uncertainty. That’s when I knew that my reflexive “But…” had no chance of escaping my mouth. In retrospect, it was thrown off course somewhere around the underappreciated organ known as the pancreas.
What’s Eating at Nate’s Butter: Amusing Our Mouths Through the Emerging Montpellier Culinary Scene
There is nothing special about my taste buds. I have – I don’t know, a normal amount of them? When I’m swirling wine around my mouth to determine what hints and aromas exist, I invariably taste chocolate, strawberries, and/or butter […]
Elfing Our Way Through the Greatest City in the World: A Perfect Weekend for New York City Novices
And you know the one word that comes to mind when I think of this city: panache. So many countries and so many people are just trying to get by; New York City not only gets by, it does it with flair.
“Never Again”: Can We Live Up to These Words?
“There are moments, there are times, when there isn’t a grey zone, when there isn’t really room for nuance, where, if you’re not resisting, you’re partaking.” – Timothy Snyder, professor of European history at Yale University I wrote the majority […]
House Sitting Our Way Through Europe
Terra: “I want to travel to castles, dine on duck confit and endless baguettes, go to the opera, lounge on sunny beaches, and (of course) have a strong wifi signal.” Nate: “That sounds great! I will start booking our trip.” […]
When a Problem is a Good Thing: ‘Whaling it’ at Fontainebleau
The last few days have marked an entirely new type of adventure on our trip. In this post I’ll discuss a number of unusual things from the weekend, including but not limited to 1) finding ourselves in the “Sea of […]
Budapest: Walking through the past to make sense of the present
Looking back on our 5 days in Budapest, I’m struck by the sometimes irreconcilable tension that we found in a city with an ‘up-and-coming’ feel in the midst of a mostly poor country that doesn’t seem to know if it wants […]