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21 April 2025 I hope you enjoyed a blessed Easter, Passover, or just a beautiful weekend.  My last week has been filled with more travels.  I’ll continue the travel adventures here. This is as long post. I apologize. It was a very full week! When I wrote last week, I had just enjoyed my first…

Sunday, 13 April 2025 Top o’ the mornin’ to ya, from Cork on ye ole Emerald Isle.  So, I didn’t tell you about this trip before…even though it’s been planned for a long time. It’s a bit of a story.  It started last summer when I hosted my friend Medi from Paris as a couch…

6 April 2025 Spring has finally arrived in Valencia. After a cold, wet March, April has turned lovely! I received news from my lawyer this week that I finally have an appointment with the police department to file my paperwork for my student visa. That’s not until May 26. But I have a date! On…

30 March 2025 This has been a more calm week. No news on the visa. I’m still waiting for my attorney to get me an appointment with the police station. I did get a new oven and range installed on Monday in my apartment. It cooks so much more evenly and consequently than the old…

23 March 2025 What a full week! My friends Eric and Dan were here this week from Boise to experience the craziness that is Fallas in Valencia. Monday, I went to Spanish classes, while they slept in and then did some exploring of the city. The plan was to meet for the Maskleta after my…

16 March 2025 (Warning! Long blog post, with lots of photos) After three weeks of the worst cold I’ve ever had, I’m finally getting better…and just in time! I had a Couchsurfer arrive on Sunday, last week. Ilya is at attorney from Belarus and currently lives in Warsaw Poland. He was here until Friday. Because…

9 March, 2025 It’s been another quiet week in Valencia. We have had an unusually wet week with so much rain that that they issued flood warnings and closed schools Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That meant that my school moved to online classes. And because I’ve still been recovering from this tenacious cold, I was…

2 March, 2025 I don’t have much to share this week. I’ve been home, sick with the worst head cold of my life. It’s just lots of congestion, coughing from my chest, constant running nose and exhaustion. I went to choir practice on Monday, the 17th of February. It was the first time that all…

16 February 2025 First off, in my last post I misspoke. Thankfully! The concerts weren’t that week, they were this week. So, the last two weeks have really concentrated on preparing, practicing, and rehearsing this music. Bruckner’s Mass in E minor is by far the most difficult piece of music I’ve ever sung. And having…

2 February 2025 Choir has been getting busier and busier. That will consume my attention for the coming week. I’m trying to practice at home when I can with recordings from the Internet. We have Bruckner’s Mass in E minor to perform this coming week. I feel very unprepared. But I’ll keep working on it.…