Exercise or My Son?
Feelings of giddiness and anxiousness competed in my stomach as I found myself back at the gym. A short while after vowing to wait to start working out again until my 2-year-old daughter was in...
View ArticleWe Summer in France
Les Gorges de l'Hérault - Copyright 2011 S. Murray The journey started something like this–a family of four, sitting on the floor of the Air Mac terminal at Dover Air Force Base, with one suitcase, one...
View ArticleI’ve Been Cursing Like a Sailor
It was a simple statement–printed in black and white on a dittoed handout with several points to consider for those of us wanting to study abroad. I no longer remember the exact wording (from my...
View ArticleLike a Hooker in a Foreign Land
As I walked by the grey-haired little old man with warm brown eyes and weathered tan skin, I couldn’t help myself but to say, “Bon soir” with a smile. I was a alone and so was he. I was wearing my...
View ArticleFleeing the Bed Bugs
The signs weren’t obvious at first. (Or were they?) The track of little bumps across Bob’s forehead as if an ant brigade had visited in the night. Another bite here, and then there, across his forearm....
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