Whale Ears and other Wonderings

• Artistic Homework 2 weeks ago Brian’s class has been studying Renaissance Art and each student had to pick one piece to do a project on. Brian picked “The Ambassadors” by Hans Holbein the Younger. It’s a fascinating piece, with a lot of great detail. Wiki has an interesting page about it:...
• Who needs GPS? 1 month ago How to find a new place in Kuwait: First, I looked at a contradictory map on a clinic brochure and attempted to compare it to Google Earth online maps. The search function just laughed at me, so I matched up several significant points of reference and convinced myself that I was in the right...
• Rambo Toast! 4 months ago Honor and I went to a new, to us, store yesterday and while wandering through the bakery section, we saw this: Yep, that is truly a wonderful pastel-y swirly magical bread creation. In Arabic-English, this reads Mini Toast Rambo (RMBW), but I am fairly certain that they meant Rainbow...
• Potty Training 4 months ago Not the kids. They’re long past that! I’m talking about toilet training the cats. Yes. I am serious. Our cats share a litter box because they are siblings and prefer it that way. Even when I had two boxes, they shared one. This is good and bad. Handy to only have one, but that one...
• Pie, Pirates, and Food Related Culture Shock 4 months ago Our silly kids came home asking for brownies today. I have no idea why. I hardly ever have surprise after-school brownies made. Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever had surprise after-school brownies made?! And usually, even if we have leftover dessert items, I make them wait for it until...

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