Twenty years ago, John and I spent a night at the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam. For dinner that night, we decided to stay within the hotel and choose one of their restaurants. We settled on Yamazato, their restaurant that serves traditional, Japanese...
When Sharon and I discussed creating this blog, I had visions of writing about interesting and relevant topics – at least interesting and relevant to me. You know, important topics like Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet...
Two days ago, as the current Snowpocalypse ™ was starting, I was standing in the frozen food isle of our village grocer. I knew I was going to be balls deep in The White Shit for days and dealing with our electrical problems, so I needed...
As we described in This Is Not a Normal House, we live off-grid in the literal sense of not being connected to any fixed utility grid. This means that we generate and store all of our own electricity. In the winter here in the snowy north that means...
Last night John took me to the city to see an opera. It has been fifteen years since I’ve last seen an opera. It is safe to say that I was crazy excited about it!When we think of opera, we think of tragic stories in foreign languages with...
I have on occasion been told by my friends that I look at my husband with “Nancy Reagan eyes”. You know the look; the look she gave Ronnie in practically every picture. Apparently I do that too. That look.While some cynics might think...
This morning as I sipped my first cup of coffee, I scrolled through my Instagram feed. There was the usual fare of selfies, cute pets, and talented art, but my eye fell on a video from the BBC about the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, where...
Today’s trip to Willow is brought to you by my need to see a dentist. Talkeetna’s village clinic has a lovely dentist named Dr. Bill, who is especially good with kids (he has been known to dress up as the tooth fairy, tutu and all), but...
It has been a really harsh Winter this year, folks. Please don’t bother coming at me with anecdotal tales of that one Winter in nineteen ninety-something where the snow was 30 feet high, or that one time in the eighties it got so cold even the...
Happy February! All the females in my family are born in February. My grandmother on the 20th, my mother the 28th, mine is the 24th, an Polaris is the 25th. Coincidence?
