Did you know the US government hopes to promote global understanding by sponsoring high school students to come into the USA every year? For several decades, young people from specific countries have gotten to know Americans on a personal level, all through the Future...
We don’t get out much anymore. That was so plainly evident today that it turned out to be both laughable—and my silver lining. I sometimes feel quite badly for Spanish daughter number three. This year has turned out to be very different than the...
Somewhere in the crazy ideas that pop through my head, I thought it would be great fun to take on a new work responsibility… during the spring that my oldest graduated from high school, and my youngest graduated from elementary school. It was because the job...
We drive the three hours home from dropping off our first born at college for the first time. But we arrive home to a fuller house than we’ve left. For the beginning of the year at least, we’ve agreed to host two academic year exchange students. One is a boy, from...
He is outside in shorts and flip flops, his normal house attire. But he’s added on a scarf and a fleece jacket, even a hat, before he’s charged outside. “Look!” he cries triumphantly. “Look at this! It’s SNOWING!!” His enthusiasm is so complete and his joy so evident...
The house has gone from noisy to quiet. Perhaps it’s more correct to say it’s changed from “too noisy” to “too quiet”. The winter break seemed longer this year, but not because of the high school. It was the college freshman who came home on December 18th, and didn’t...
