I haven’t written in this blog in a while. Not since it was winter, and new closures were hitting our municipality, and I was anxious and stressing over the coming winter under stricter regulations. But now we’re halfway through spring, the state of alarm in Spain is ending on Sunday, the cases are way down, vaccinations are going up, and life is getting back to some semblance of normal. And I turned 45 yesterday. I didn’t do much to celebrate, because at some point the birthdays start coming so fast that you just don’t seem to have the time to mark them in any big way. In the evening, H…

This is such a perfect gif for me, because I literally spent new year’s eve on a plane flying from New York to Lisbon. At 7pm NY time the captain came on the speaker telling us all that it was midnight in Lisbon, and wishing us a happy 2020, but of course where we were at the time – probably about 400 miles off the east coast over the Atlantic Ocean, it still would have been only about 8 or so, depending on when we crossed over the next time zone. So somewhere over the next couple of hours we flew into midnight, and 2020 hit me over the head…