Navel of the World
Note : This is part 2 of a multipart series about Peru. All photos are protected by copyright. We could probably easily do a few posts just about Cusco. For some odd reason I had always imagined it as some small town in the mountains. Boy was I wrong! (Make sure to click on this pic, it’s much better full sized.) It is a city that quickly goes from fairly modern to ancient Incan just by turning the corner. Getting around Cusco...
Tigger’s Poem: I Am
Tigger’s first blog submission. He wrote it, and Dad typed it for the blog. It was Dad’s Chrismakah gift from Tigger.
Our First Big Announcement
A big change has come our way!
Two Winter Solstices in 2010
Note : This is part 1 of a multipart series about Peru. All photos are protected by copyright. In the past several years, I have tried to make at least one big trip a year. Last year it was the Philippines, a country that wove itself into the fabric of my heart in an incredibly deep way (see my last post What Defines Us?). So after the new year, as I gladly gave the finger to 2009, a year that was one of the most painful of my life...
What Defines Us
We seem to like labels. When meeting a new person, we generally ask a few icebreakers which typically aid us in fitting people into a basic box that seems nice and comfy for us. When I was in high school we had some basic groups. You were a stoner if you had long hair and listened to heavy metal, even if you never did drugs. If you wore a varsity jacket, obviously you were a jock (even though you could earn a varsity for things...
