Let me be honest, and this is a little embarassing as the wife of a coffee aficionado, I just googled “what’s a dry mill.” Even thought I’ve been to one, I’m still not so sure what all the loud machines and grunt work are about. The way I see it, the dry mill is the …
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I love.
Moments like these with people exactly like this… “exactly” right down to that birthmark on that left butt cheek. People who love you even when you have frizzy hair and peeling nail paint! Happy weekending! Loooooots coming to you from the coffee hills next week, as long as our internet and electricity stay fired up …
Just when I thought…
… I totally have this! I’m a rock-star! I can drive, sort of communicate, drop my kid off at a French speaking school every day like it’s no big deal, make friends… life is a breeze! Just at that moment, I realized I don’t have this. At all. After a busy week shuttling Ben and …
One Day Down…
…about 180 to go. Dearest brave soul, you did greater than the greatest great I ever imagined. We are talking like, “Egh, it’s no big deal” levels of great. You walked right into that French speaking world with a comfort and ease I barely recognized. I am so at peace, so sure, and so in …
To my American African French fry…
The sweetness of an opportunity waits for you in that classroom tomorrow. In just a few short months you will be bi-lingual. One of the cool kids whose life brings them the beauty of knowing more than one language. All day I hear people floating between English, French, Dutch, German, and Karundi with ease. It’s …
the language sharks
I can not believe that in just a few days our world will change again. Your first day of school. I am so nervous for you, and for me. I am worried that your inability to speak like them will shape you and change you… And it will shape you, your first day in a …