Although his images defined fashion for decades, Irving Penn began his artistic life dreaming of being a painter. He graduated from the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in 1938…
Family Storybook: Finding our Apartment
This post is part of a series called Family Storybook There are moments in life that get packaged into “A Tale” rather than just “a story”. You tell it practically…
Taking a Quick Break
Hey all, some family things have come up and we’re a bit distracted. We’re taking a week off from posting to get caught up and organized again. See you next…
Van Gogh Exhibit
This post is part of a series called London Holidays – 2024 Our “reason” for going to London was primarily to see the “Poets and Lovers” exhibit at The National…
A Quick Guide to Bacalhau
Portuguese love bacalhau (BAA-ka-lau, except that “lh” together means you give it kind of a “yuh” sound there in the middle) which is dried and salted codfish. It’s a staple…
Tourists in Our Own Town, Overlook
We never went to the Space Needle until a visiting family member asked to see it. At one point we both worked approximately five minutes, on foot, from the base…
Tourists in Our Own Town, Downtown
We had company in our hometown! It’s admittedly difficult for people to just drop in, but thanks to a work thing that Lisa’s sister had in Lisbon, we got to…
Food & Wine: Castanhas Edition
We’re enjoying our first visitor (Hi C!) this week and it’s been a lot of firsts for us. You see, we’ve been terrible residents in Braga because we have done…
“Oh, Rocky!”
For many of us seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the late night run in the local movie theater was a kind of rite of passage. This gorgeously schlocky…
Washing Clothes in the EU (part two)
This is a continuation of my deep-ish dive into the weirdly complex world of washing machines in the EU. Like a lot of literally foreign concepts, not growing up with…
