Entries by AlanPaul

Hanover trip

We took for along weekend in Hanvoer, NH. Jacob and eli only hve MOnday and Tuesday off and we wanted to get away but didn’t have time or energy to go far. so we went to Hanover to get som fresh air, do a little skiing and visit our old friends the Tashi family. The […]

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Repat columns

I have written three so far.. this is number two. Not sure why I amstarting in the middle. Separating Anchors from Anvils Moving Abroad and Back Teaches an Expat the Value of His Stuff By ALAN PAUL I’m writing this column sitting at the same desk in the same spot in the same room where […]

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I’m still out here

I have not given up on the blog… sorry for all the gaps. What a strange time.. so busty and so hard to get motivated at other times. I will write much more up her soon, I promise… though I don’t know if anyone is still looking. Let me know if you are.

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Super Bowl

Ready for kickoff.Jacob was fully into it.Cheerleaders were ready to roll.Laura was wearing a black and goldPaul Lumber sweatshirt. I was jealous.Gracious hostess, even if she did checkFacebook mid game.Jon was vaguely rooting for the Cards,but he came through in the kitchen andeven with a few timely high fives.Victory prompted some real Lord of theFlies […]

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Super Bowl Shuffle

In tribute and celebration to last night’s victory, I suggest watching the Bears’ classic Super Bowl Shuffle. I forgot how great it is.. “I’m as smooth as chocolate swirl.”

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Obama Inauguration

This has been such a strange time to land in the U.S., with a powerful contradictory undercurrent of fear, uncertainty, nervousness – all over the economy which is haunting everyone like an unwelcome specter – and incredible hope and excitement over Obama’s looming presidency and the concurrent vanishing of W from the national stage. I […]

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Inauguration.

President Obama on the big screen at njpac. This has been such a strange time to and in the U.S., with a powerful contradictory undercurrent mixed of fear, uncertainty, nervousness – all over the economy which is haunting everyone like an unwelcome specter – and incredible hope and excitement over Obama’s looming presidency and the […]

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My IPhone

I am in the middle of collecting my thoughts on the inauguration and will be back in a few with some of them, hopefully actually making sense, but first I have to say that God I have mixed feelings about my IPhone. As a phone it sort of sucks. As a little piece of technology […]

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