by Jeni | Mar 22, 2021 | Downsizing, Family, Food, Language, Letting Go, Peace, Relationships, Retirement, Spain, Travel, Yoga
View from my writing desk Yesterday was cleaning day in our apartment. It was too early to run the vacuum cleaner and risk waking the neighbors below us, so I grabbed the broom and started to sweep. The repetitive movement of the broom bristles made a soft swishing...
by Jeni | Mar 17, 2021 | Dogs, Retirement, Spain, Travel
The Queen’s Gardens (Jardines de la Reina) One of the beauties of living on Claudio Alvargonzales street in the Cimavilla neighborhood is our proximity to the Jardines de la Reina (The Queen’s Gardens), a beautiful little oasis of green grass and giant...
by Jeni | Mar 12, 2021 | Food, Kindness, Language, Spain, Travel
Lately my life has felt like the game, Taboo, a word guessing game where a player chooses a card and then tries to get his partner to say that word without saying the “taboo” word listed on the card. Only I am playing the real life version where I enter a...
by Jeni | Mar 9, 2021 | Dogs, Food, Retirement, Spain, Travel
Wilma checking out the view After 3 years of planning, 4 days of travel, 2 airlines, 3 flights, 3 hotels, 3 countries, 5 taxis, and a 5 hour drive from Madrid to Gijon, we arrived at our new apartment! We could not be more excited to start our new life. We covered...
by Jeni | Feb 27, 2021 | Downsizing, Food, Marriage, Spain, Travel, Yoga
1978 Me and my roommate, Teresa, in Madrid, Spain When cleaning out the storage unit earlier this year, I came across this photo taken during my first visit to Spain. I had not looked at it in decades and was surprised by the rush of memories that accompanied it. In...
