Every Friday night in Brussels, from June through September, hundreds of rollerbladers gather to skate through the streets of town in the Brussels Roller Parade.  The last Friday of the season, Reid and I joined them. We showed up at the starting line, Place Poelaert, around 7:30PM where there were people renting skates and practicing.  [...]

Last Fall, when preparing to move to Belgium, I corresponded with a blogger who was about 6 months ahead of me in the process. (Hi Julie!) She gave me a list of documents I would need and clued me into the red tape of Belgium residency cards. I’ll admit it..I disregarded some of what she [...]

Thomas and I have been on a boardgame kick recently. Saturday morning, we checked out our local gaming store, L’Antre Jeux. They’re a small store, but packed full of games. We were thinking about getting Pandemic or Small World, but left empty-handed…maybe for Christmas. Thomas was interested in the complete wall of role-playing books, since [...]

Note:  Whoops, I had trouble with posting this earlier.  Sorry if you see it twice. Though I enjoy hiking, biking and kayaking, I’m not big on exercise-exercise. I can’t stand running or working out in a gym, and I’m not coordinated enough to keep up with aerobics…but last night, I joined 420 of my fellow [...]

Last month, I took an online photography class at BetterPhoto.com on Natural Lighting. I didn’t plan on posting my photos, but Thomas convinced me otherwise. There’s something different to me about photos that I submitted for homework and critique, than the photos I post on my blog. Honestly, most of my blog photos are snapshots [...]