Tag: Europe

• Travel for Beginners

  I know almost nothing about soy sauce. I know I like to dip my sushi rolls into it and I know that the colored tops of the soy sauce bottles on the tables in Asian restaurants denote whether the soy sauce is regular (red) or low sodium (green). I know it is one of the…

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  February 7, 2016

  Essay

  A Moveable Feast, A Week in Winter, Africa, Asia, Asian, Bangladesh, Baton Rouge, Beryl Markham, British, Circling the Sun, Ernest Hemingway, Europe, Hadley Richardson, Ireland, Irish, Kenya, Kirstin Chen, Louisiana, Maeve Binchy, Memphis, Monroe, Nell Freudenberger, New Orleans, Paula McLain, pub, reading, Singapore, soy sauce, Soy Sauce for Beginners, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, The Newlyweds, The Paris Wife

• One Chord

  One chord. That’s all it takes. One chord and I instantly know this song and the artist. It’s the sound of that one chord that caused me to have a reoccurring nightmare for weeks on end in 1974 where I would hear that chord and then faint, waking up hours later after having missed an…

  michardillo

  August 30, 2015

  Essay

  8 track tape, Baton Rouge, Bennie and the Jets, Billy Joel, Candle in the Wind, Dorothy, Elton John, Emerald City, Europe, Fork Union Military Academy, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Harvest, Levon, Louisiana, LSU, Madman Across the Water, Neil Young, New Orleans, Princess Diana, SLU, The Lion King, The Wizard of Oz, Tiny Dancer

• Living in Belgium: A Few of My Favorite Things

  For two glorious years I lived abroad, as a “trailing spouse” expat living in Waterloo, Belgium. Yes, that Waterloo. As in the battlefield, which is the site of the famous 1815 Battle of Waterloo. As in Napoléon, Emperor of France, who met his great defeat at the hands of England’s Duke of Wellington. In July…

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  February 1, 2015

  Essay

  Belguim, cheese, Europe, expat, food, L.L.Bean, Waterloo