We’ve always loved food and food cultures and we’ve been lucky enough to live in places–from Mexico to Brazil and now New Orleans–where food matters. More than sustenance, it is a way of life and a set of rituals. Not for nothing do Louisianans call the sauteed mixture of onions, celery and bell pepper “the [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Say wat?!
Posted in Ethiopia, adoption on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Little tiny Chuck Taylors
Posted in Mose on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Need we say more?
Last days of sanity…
Posted in Cambridge on January 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It was lightly snowing this morning, so we took a walk up the street to get the Sunday paper and enjoy a slow and easy morning, no doubt one of our last for a while…
Not Making it Easy
Posted in Mose, adoption, politics on January 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I had a good cry in Target today trying to choose a photo book. Wide Horizons suggests we give the birth mother photos of us, our home, our town and of Mose to help reassure her and so she has something to remember him by. If the thought of this isn’t heart-breaking enough, there weren’t [...]
Learning Amharic
Posted in Ethiopia on January 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well, not so much learning Amharic as learning to be polite in Amharic.
The Foreign Service language course on Amharic (along with all of the other languages the Foreign Service teaches) is available online, with PDFs of the text books and MP3s of the instructional audio. I, for one, have needed the audio as I try [...]
Donations
Posted in Ethiopia, adoption on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our adoption agency, Wide Horizons for Children, is committed to the care of children with disabilities and older children who may remain in their care until maturity. As part of that mission we will be bringing in-kind and cash donations with us to the WHFC’s Horizon House in Ethiopia. Because we’re asking so late, only [...]
How’s the weather?
Posted in Ethiopia, Mose on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of many last minute tasks was checking the weather in Addis. At just under 8,000 above sea level, the weather in the capital is mild all year round, although I imagine that the long rains from June through September would grow tiresome. We’ll be there in early February and it looks to be a [...]
Why Ethiopia?
Posted in Ethiopia, adoption on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A lot of folks have asked us this question and I have an answer, but before I get to it let me put on my professor hat and turn the question around. “Why do you ask?” My experience in the classroom is that vague questions like “Why Ethiopia?” tend to imply another question, [...]
Ethiopian music scene
Posted in Ethiopia on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Somehow I doubt we’ll be bopping around the Addis club scene, but there’s clearly a lot to see and do. Check out Afropop Worldwide’s recent broadcast of their trip to Ethiopia (click here to listen) for a heaping helping of music, from traditional to pop.
Two weeks and counting
Posted in Ethiopia, Mose, adoption on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After months and months of waiting and then milestones that marked more waiting, I can actually see the clock ticking away for the first time in this process. Getting our referral for Mose was AWESOME and we’ve been over the moon ever since, but even then, as soon as we sent in our official [...]
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