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Impromptu Interview with Taita | Yaffaweya

This is just too neat to not share. I went to college with this amazing woman (the blogger) and knew her through the local university government. She is intelligent, worldly and very down to earth… you should read her blog, not just this post. Impromptu Interview with Taita | Yaffaweya.

This is where I am from…

Each year Portland, Oregon celebrates Pedalpalooza to celebrate cyclists, their right to share the road and for that road to be safe and simply for people’s love of bikes in Portland. Or in their own words, the event “highlights the vulnerability of cyclists everywhere and decries society’s dependence on pollution-based transport.”

Lessons from a 90-year-old

Oh my!! I feel after reading this that I could change the whole plan of my blog, as if there truly is a plan and respond to each one of these little lessons. I just might to be honest with you, yet that might also take away from its ultimate truth. This is a brilliantContinue reading “Lessons from a 90-year-old”

A place to get away…

I know I don’t normally discuss the touristy stuff here on Living the American Dream in Europe, but it is at times a part of the experience, just like being silly and obsessed with things from my home culture, so here we are. Over the weekend my husband had a birthday and to counter theContinue reading “A place to get away…”