Pumpkin Pie Thanksgiving Abroad

This year will mark my third Thanksgiving in Colombia. As a Peace Corps Volunteer, I have a conveniently large group of North Americans to celebrate with. Every Thanksgiving, Volunteers and…

Family

Thankful

  It’s been a rough several weeks for me over here, though many of the reasons for this are what might condescendingly be called “First-World Problems.” The two extra days…

Feast Full of Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving! Yes, I realize that it has been over a week. And yes, I realize that you might not celebrate Thanksgiving. But Thanksgiving is a holiday that should be…

Austin, Texas

Texas has trees.  I know it sounds ridiculous, but I thought it would be more like the deserts familiar in John Wayne cowboy motion pictures.  I realize that I only…

How to Holiday Overseas

Sorry Anglophiles, this post is not about vacationing in a different country, but how to celebrate your cultural traditions while abroad.  This year has brought about a lot of changes…

Thankful

My cousin Sérgio, from Portugal, greeted me yesterday on MSN Messenger. “Olá Beta! Novidades?” News? I told him Thanksgiving was coming up, what his mother jokingly refers to as “o…

Thursday Thanks

Thursday Thanks by Lisa Here in the United States it is Thanksgiving Day.  I thought about not posting this week, since I wasn’t sure if folks would be too stuffed…