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Hooray for Hitchcock

The movie Hitchcock with Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins is great fun, a well-acted, fictionalized account of the creation of the thriller Psycho. And a trigger for remembrance of things past.

Finding Your Voice: The Church Helped Me Find Mine

It was winter 2009. Not a dark and stormy night, but a bright Saturday morning. At a meeting of the Northeast Georgia Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), I spoke in favor of allowing openly gay people to hold leadership positions in the church. I was terrified.

A Slippery Slope: The NYT Spelling Bee Game

Wordle? Great. Connections? No problem. Of all the New York Times’ daily puzzles, it’s the Spelling Bee game that threatens to ruin my life.

Seven Things to Love about Alicante

During our weeks in Alicante, Spain, we discovered many simple pleasures … pleasures that we miss now that we’re home. Here is a highly subjective list of the best of the best.

Big News from the Beach

We’ve made some decisions this past week. Our new video tells all.

From Tampa to Alicante: Two Trailblazers Tell Their Story

You know when a place feels right. Ted and I have found that place in Alicante, Spain … largely because of the people we’ve met here. I’d like to introduce you to two of them: Alberto and Glenn Molina-Coats, who retired earlier this year to Alicante from Tampa, Florida.

Putting It on the Line in Alicante

Clothes dryers are rare in Spain. With a washing machine in our Airbnb but no dryer, we’ve actually enjoyed hanging our laundry over a rack to dry on our terrace. It’s not nearly as much trouble as it sounds, so today we tried a new challenge.

A Sunday Lunch in Alicante

We’ve made amazing friends during our three weeks so far in Alicante. At a traditional lunch with them this past Sunday, Ted and I felt we had fully arrived in Spain. Here are a few videos from that day.

Life in Spain: A Chicken of a Different Color

It’s different over here in Spain. And the difference isn’t so much a list of things you can tick off alphabetically as it is a cozy metaphorical comforter that envelops you, reminding you that life doesn’t have to be as painful and frenetic as it is back home.

The Numbers Don’t Lie

One goal of our trip to Spain is to sleep better than we had after a certain date in November 2024. According to my Garmin watch’s summary for the second week of our visit, significant gains were achieved.