Dog Days of Summer

10 June 2010

The dog days of summer have arrived here. This is how Mufasa plans to spend them. How about you?

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Carbo-loading, Swiss-style

30 May 2010

On our recent Swiss adventures, we ate fine, if somewhat rustic, country fare. I thought I’d share some recipes for authentic Swiss classics (click on the links for 2 recipes). The first one is Alpenmacaroni. We eat it in the middle of a good ski day, too… steamy, stringy Emmentaller and Gruyere cheeses, potato cubes, macaroni, ham and [...]

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Tuesday Tidbit #6: What Gruyeres Sounds like

25 May 2010

You may know what the cheese, Gruyere, tastes like… but do you know what Gruyeres, the town sounds like? Well, here you go!
(For some reason this just cracks me up.)

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Adventure Begets Adventure

24 May 2010

The other thing about Adventures… in addition to inherent risk discussed in the last post… is that once you’ve set off, you’re out there. Stuff happens and all there is to do is make the best of it. When a bum trip happens — or a bad meal, room, or traveling companion — all there [...]

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Here’s the Thing about Adventures

16 May 2010

Here’s the thing about adventures: they’re risky. A lot of people never even set out on them to begin with because it’s just too much uncertainty, too many potential hazards.
I started calling this blog XpatAdventures when the nature of the adventure was shaped mostly by living alone in a foreign country. Now I realize that’s [...]

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Maggie & the Kids at Kopila Valley need a car

14 May 2010

I’ve written about Maggie Doyne, Do Something’s 2009 Grand Prize Winner, before… she is one of the most remarkable young changemakers I’ve ever met. If you’re not familiar with her work, you may want to check it out here:

or here:

Maggie’s been raising all these kids (around 30 now, and with fantastic local staff, “Aunites” and [...]

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Book Fairying in Mexico

5 May 2010

Where to begin with the Book Fairying? We could begin with

What is it anyway? or

How I learned about it when I found one of the books at Squam

This time last year I did not know of Christine Mason Miller. And now…? Now I want to BE Christine… or at least live close enough that we could [...]

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Tuesday Tidbit #5 – Room Service Delight

4 May 2010

Last month I found myself in Copenhagen on a Friday night after a week-long training course out in the nearby countryside. I booked a room near Nyhavn, thinking I’d stroll along the water and dine in a little sidewalk cafe.
After a week on my feet, though, I was exhausted. Plus, it was raining. I ordered [...]

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Further proof of a Swiss Sense of Humor

29 April 2010

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Tuesday Tidbit #4

27 April 2010

On a recent business trip, I was able to see several longtime friends, including two of my best, most enduring childhood friends, Marni and Antonio (and their kids!). I am so proud of them. They are both total Rock Stars. We’ve all known each other since we were 11. The very thought of these people makes [...]

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