Jack has sent us a memo on our East Coast cruising adventure, and Ellie has sent us some background on the good ship “Majic.” The name is assembled from the initials of children. The boat splashes today, weather permitting. It has been out of the water for 4 years, so the wooden hull will need […]
Yesterday was my last class volunteering as a tutor at the Ronald M. Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning. Over the last semester I spent 6 hours each week in a beginning English class. Our students were primarily adults from Eastern African countries. Each student gave me a thank you card at the end of class. […]
One of the biggest decisions we need to make is whether to rent or sell our “new” condo. We’ve been in it for about a year now, and it is truly fabulous. Upon weighing the pros and cons, we have put the place up for sale. Our neighbor Sue Noyes is the realtor. We took […]
Ellen’s cousins Ellie and Jack have recently restored a vintage 42 foot Richardson cabin cruiser. The work was done at the Cayuga Wooden Boat Works in Cayuga, New York. Ellie and Jack have asked us to join them and their professional skipper to move the boat out to Martha’s Vineyard in June. We embark on […]
Ellen and Steve have been invited to serve in the US Peace Corps in South Africa pending medical and legal clearance. We will “stage” on January 20th, 2016, probably in Philadelphia. From there we travel to Johannesburg and then to the training location. After 10 weeks of pre-service training (PST), we will be sworn in as […]
We are hoping to spend a few months this fall in Ecuador. We’ll probably fly from Los Angeles to Quito, then spend some time travelling to Cuenca. It is said that the Ecuadorean accent is quite excellent for learning Spanish, so we plan to enroll in a school for several months. Our current front-runner is […]
Ellen and I lived in Topanga, California from 2006-2009. I commuted to Los Angeles from 2001-2006. We moved out from Saint Paul after the kids were fledged (somewhat). Although we were only there for three years, it might have been a lifetime for the friends we made and adventures we had. We lived in a […]
Saint Paul has been a very important place in our lives. Ellen arrived as a young girl and grew up here. I came for Macalester College and grew up here (maybe). We married here, had and raised a family here, developed a community here, and recovered from the great recession here. Now we are embarking […]
One of the first questions we get is “what about Mac?” The truth is, Mac is the greatest dog ever, he’s been through a lot with us, and he can’t join us in South Africa. Fortunately, we’ve had several offers to become Mac’s step parents.
We aren’t exactly starting from scratch here. We’ve been working on our plan for some time. Here are the elements we see lining up: We have been invited by the US Peace Corps to serve in The Republic of South Africa for 27 months starting in January of 2016. We do need to be medically […]
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