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  • Moving Back to the States: Reality Check

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Eight] I have scheduled COVID-19 PCR travel tests for the entire family for Thursday morning. Including the minions. Cause they’re over two. #PrayForUs

  • Moving Back to the States: A “Real” Update

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Seven] This week friends and neighbors have been picking things up. The house feels emptier, but it feels GOOD to let things go. Today we dove into contract with another house in the United States. Hoping it’ll close by end of August so we can enroll First Minion…

  • Expect A “Real” Update Soon

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Six] Whatever that means. Or not. Let’s see what happens, eh?

  • Expectations Vs Reality

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Five] OMG this blog is a PERFECT DEMO of expectations versus reality. I expected to write a lovely little blog post. I am literally writing a few lines. That’s it. That’s the whole post.

  • #Coloratura #MusicOfTheSpheres #Coldplay

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Four] The lovely and distracting Coloratura by the eternal Coldplay. In the end it’s all aboutThe love you’re sending out

  • And Then A Fire

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Three] Except not. It’s actually Tuesday because I flew in yesterday to the Netherlands and took a shower and then slept until this morning at three. Holy hell. It’s really hard to focus. Of course. But let’s try to get this story out, shall we? The plane landed…

  • And Then A Tornado

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Two] Last night sirens started going off and the landscaper came in and ordered me into the basement immediately. #TornadoWarning TL;DR we’re all fine. I messaged the AirBNB host asking them if they also had sirens in Grosse Pointe Park and then forgot that my phone has a…

  • Can’t Handle This

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety One] By the brilliant comedian Bo Burnham! I wouldn’t have got the lettuce if I knew it wouldn’t fitWouldn’t have got the cheese if I knew it wouldn’t fitWouldn’t have got the peppers if I knew they wouldn’t fitI wouldn’t have got, half of it

  • It’s Complicated: I Bought A Car

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety] “It’s Complicated: We Bought A House” will hopefully happen by … say … September? October? Good times. Oke, so, remember when I said I’d be buying a car. But then I didn’t? USAA gave me a car loan. Which meant that when I went to ‘buy’ the car,…

  • Time to Pretend

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Eighty Nine] By the indomitable MGMT! I’ll miss the playgroundsAnd the animals and digging up worms

  • I Did Not Buy The Car

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Eighty Eight] And then we were locked out of the AirBNB. I don’t want to talk about it. I just…look forward to when… the Universe… stops testing us…

  • All Eyes On Me

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Eighty Seven] By the absolutely divine Bo Burnham!! ! “Get your fuckin’ hands upGet on out of your seatsAll eyes on me, all eyes on me”