Roadside Meeting with the Phillips!

René and I took a work road trip to Shreveport, which would have been pretty boring had we not met these guys in Alexandria for brunch!

Nini in Nola

Rainier took New Orleans by storm in the post-Mardi Gras season.

Who needs Olan Mills when you have Granny’s porch and an umbrella?

Mardi Gras 2018

Granny kept Rainier while we showed our New Yorker friends, Laura and Keir, how we do in down in New Orleans on MG day!

Rainier’s First Metry Parade

As expected, the marching bands were his favorite part.

Wintery Passau

A winter’s afternoon walk to the market

During a regular ol’ errand, this sky stopped me for a moment.

Happy Birthday Granny (Jingle Bells) Remix

With René on guitar and lead vocals and Rainier on ukulele and back-up vocals.

Ordering Apfelkuchen

We’ve been taking Rainier to restaurants since he was born. This kid went out to eat more times in the first year of his life than I did in the first 20 of mine. So, it’s no surprise that he started ordering his own “Apfelkuchen, bitte” at the age of two. Him fancy.

NYE 2017

Walk home with me on the last day of 2017

There were no NYE parties in London for us this year, but that doesn’t mean things did get wild and crazy in Passau.