Shifting gears

At last, my finals are over, papers turned in, and now I can settle in for some nice warm family time. Its been a whirlwind over the past few weeks trying to stay sane while writing, studying, de-lousing, baking, and everything else that comes at the end of the year. I’ve been done with classes [...]

Poverty and disability go hand in hand in most countries

Today is Blog Action Day, and I’m taking part! On this day bloggers around the world are focusing on poverty, and hopefully encouraging their readers to take action!

I’m sure there will be lots of wonderful blog posts around the causes and solutions to global poverty – debt reduction, food crisis, international [...]

Blog Action Day

I’ll be participating….will you?

Exhausted in Hungary (or exhausted and hungry)

Somehow this post didn’t get published. Here it is now…
After 3 thunderstorms, and 6 hours of waiting on planes that were not in the air (not to mention the 9+ hours while we were in the air), I’ve finally made it Budapest!

I spent a lot of time on the plane working on the script of [...]

What Ken and Barbie do when its bedtime…

While I’m in Budapest, my husband has been at home with the kids. They have gone to the pool, the library, a state park….its sounds great!
The other day I was speaking to them via Skype, and my husband was telling me that earlier he and my daughter had been playing Barbies. Ken and Barbie met [...]

My first day in Pest

Budapest is separated into two sides of the Danube (at one time there were two cities), Buda and Pest. I’m on the Pest side.
Today we set into downtown, found the university, met everyone and got a feel for the course. Its going to be really good! We only had one lecture today but it was [...]