After 28 hours of flying and air­ports, from Bangkok to Taipei, Taipei to LA and then LA to Vancouver, we finally made it home. Exhausted and excited we exited the baggage/customs area of the Vancouver airport to a group of fab­ulous, sup­port­ive friends. Dale, Kate, Katy, Brianna, Colin, and Mike thank you so much for [...]

It was our niece Bridget’s birth­day yes­ter­day. She’s a whop­ping EIGHT! That’s like almost a whole decade. Pretty soon she’ll be driving cars and scuba diving and pretty much any­thing else she decides to want to do. For now, I think she’ll be con­cen­trat­ing on learn­ing how to rollerblade, which we think is pretty AWESOME. [...]

Wow! Who knew turning 30 would be such a blast. I just want to say thanks to every­one for the kind wishes (espe­cially Laura for arran­ging so many neat sur­prises). We had another party last night here at Christine’s place in Piacenza. It was a funeral theme, and all of Christine’s inter­na­tional school friends came [...]

I know I can speak for Laura as well when I say that we found it dif­fi­cult to leave Lanciano. As I write this, we’re speed­ing north in a cozy train com­part­ment toward Piacenza, Italy to see our friend Christine. Laura is napping on the seats across from me, lines of sun­light and shadow moving [...]