• But for those of you who do…hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!  (There is so much to be grateful for.)  Right now my stomach resembles that of the disgruntled bird pictured above… He got his revenge.

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  • Christa and Anna are in Chengdu this week at a Home-Schooling conference.  They come back tomorrow morning (Thanksgiving Day).  Tomorrow evening we will be enjoying a delicious turkey dinner and games with a some fellow American expats.  It was a great time last year so the bar is set pretty high. Meanwhile, Sarah and I…

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  • As Sarah and I rode a taxi back to our apartment complex just after dark yesterday evening I noticed a person tending a small fire on the side of the road.  Interesting, I thought.  It is a bit cold outside.  I guess a fire would be nice to keep warm. Then as the taxi continued…

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  • (Dean Koontz – The Taking) Terrifying, intriguing, thought-provoking, DISTURBING, suspenseful, downright scary (yet oddly hopeful)  book! My flesh crawled quite a few times…

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  • Scene 1:  Our company had a meeting yesterday in which we talked about what it means to go through a transition.  Specifically we talked about the various emotional stages (or patterns) that can be observed when people are experiencing transition.  We had a nice hand-out diagram and a nice "exercise" to explore these various stages.…

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  • I’ve been married 6 years now.  The "yeti speak" has been in operation half of that time.  Yeah, this blogging stuff all started on (or around) this day in November of 2003.  Sarah was only three months old at the time and screaming her head off (hence her blog nickname that stuck–The Banshee…) In some…

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  • It’s almost gone now, but when we woke up this morning there was snow accumulating.  Here’s the proof of it…  (The girls had fun.)  I was in class–boo-hoo.  (Much warmer in there though.)

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  • This just in:  I think I’ve run out of things to say.  It’s hard to believe–given my tendency to drone on and on about the most inane topics imaginable.  But it feels true.  The past few days I’ve posted every few days or so in the hopes that something "blogworthy" would happen to me in…

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  • I climbed a mountain today.  What did you do?  (ha-ha) Check out the pictures here…

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  • Raising four kids is difficult at times… Oh, you mean, we didn’t tell you?  Surely you already knew about the other (less-mentioned) members of our family. Let’s see there’s Anna, Sarah,… Cokie… In addition to making a U.S. cross-country road trip with us, Cokie has also been Anna’s constant companion in Singapore, Thailand, China, and…

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