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December 28, 2024 I hope your Christmas and Hanukkah have been as wonderful for you as my Christmas has been here. It’s been wonderful hosting my friend Mike from Denver this past week. My friend Milo (friends since college at Oral Roberts University) arrived from Barcelona on Tuesday, Christmas Eve. We met Rafa for lunch.…

December 21, 2024 Some weeks are better than others and this was a wonderful week. Between a productive week of Spanish classes, a choir concert, getting to know a new friend, hosting an old friend, and getting ready for a full Christmas week, I’m feeling more festive than I have in a while. I alluded…

15 December 2024 It’s finally starting to feel a bit like Christmas. This was a full week of activities. On Wednesday evening this week, I joined my friend Rafael for a night at the opera. Verdi’s Il Trovatore was amazing! The sets, the costumes, and the singing were superb! And of course, all of it…

8 December 2024 I’m still working on getting into the holiday spirit. I found a glass pie pan on Amazon. It arrived last Saturday. As I pulled out all the “fixins” to make a chocolate pecan pie, I realized that I didn’t have a rolling pin. So, after class on Monday, I stopped at the…

1 December 2024 It’s been a good week, filled with art, love and community. Last Sunday, I went to Les Arts, the opera house for a recital with world renowned baritone Simon Keenlyside. He sang a variety of art songs. That was a delight. And then I went back on Tuesday for a concert with…

24 November, 2024 It’s been a couple weeks since my last post. Thanks to the folks who reached out wondering if everything is okay. I’ve been pretty quiet and keeping to myself. The truth is that my mother taught me, “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” I honestly…

Thanks to everyone who has been reaching out. For those who missed it, I’m actually in Denver right now. So I’m doing great. Here’s what I have heard. After getting more rain in 24 hours than they might get in some years, the floods were devastating. Valencia city is doing much better than the surrounding…

It’s been an unusually quiet couple of weeks. School is good. I have a new teacher. The school changes teachers every few months so that we get exposed to different accents and styles. I can truly say that each teacher has brought unique value and perspective. And the other students are pretty cool too. I…

The weeks fly by! The big news last week was that I contacted my attorney to start the process to renew my student visa for next year. I’m needing a lot more Spanish studies. And I’m loving living here. If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that I have had plenty of cultural and…