Today is Friday, which means it’s market day! One of the first things that I experienced here was the local market; it’s where we get all our fruit and vegetables for the next week. A short 3-minute walk from home, vendors set up shop in the same platz (plaza) where we sit and enjoy the … More Mountain Runs and Market Days

A normal day here begins at 7am. I get myself ready and then go wake the girls. I make their brotseid, which is like a snack lunch. Mom and I get them dressed for school and then I feed them breakfast. We walk to Kindergarten and then the kinder-crippa (I have no idea how that’s … More Daily Life, Beautiful Monotony

It costs 4.50€ to get from my house to Salzburg. So I went again last weekend.  I could get used to this! The trip was a bit shorter this time, but it began as a beautiful day. (I live at the foot of this mountain- I’ve been told that cable car is the oldest in … More The time I joined a procession.

Sunday I found myself in Salzburg. What a City! It was straight out of a movie- romantic music played in the cobblestone streets, huge Churches, buildings, statues and fountains everywhere, and of course, the ‘hills’ surrounding the entire place, putting Salzburg at the top of my favorites list and making me want to sing. (ok … More Salzburg

I realize you have been subject to my rambling thoughts more often than you are able to read about my actual life here. Tut mir lied. One of the reasons is simply that I find it difficult to share too much of my daily life with the family without feeling like I’m creating my own … More My Vocabulary, and other things

Sometimes it might feel like I’m living in a dream world where the sun rises behind the mountains casting a soft glow as it wakes the world. Where the fog slowly lifting makes the phrase “misty mountains” come alive, and the Church bells are pealing in the distance welcoming in a new day. Where the … More Adrenaline and Satisfaction

With so much free time on my hands my mind is finally free to allow threads of thoughts, speculations, explorations, questions, and philosophies to run rampant. I have a growing list of questions to look up, pray about, or ask smart people. Time has also allowed some thoughts to come to their ridiculous end, and have left … More The Beauty of Nothing

Yesterday was an off day for the kids. So much screaming. So much frustration. So many things like: “I want food but not that food but now that you take it away I want it and now I want to feed myself just kidding I’m gonna throw it on the floor and then stop screaming … More Screaming Children and Zooey Deschanel

I heard a holy man once say that while we are encouraged to praise God through our suffering, we often forget to praise him in our joys. He suggested starting your day with the Divine praises. It is on such a day as this, when my heart is already singing, that such a song seems … More Rain 🙂

The whole boring point of this blog is to keep family updated with my travels, and to selfishly avoid extensive explanations when I return. I’m all about living life intentionally however; giving 100 150% as often as you remember, and striving to love having no regrets. In my short life span (and even shorter time … More Cliff #1: Pope Francis and Grey’s Anatomy