Frank has started a new blog entitled A Year In Mill Valley. Sebastian say check it out. Or Spider-Boy is gonna get you!

If you’ve come here looking for our blog A Year In Cornwall, you’ve come to right place. While we’re no longer in Cornwall, the blog is still here, with photos and stories of the almost two years we spent there. It was a time that was both wonderful and difficult, and like many thing in life, if we were to do it again we would do it quite differently…but that will have to wait for a future posting.

In the meantime we’re back in Northern California. Nathaniel is in 2nd grade. Sebastian is in pre-school. Rosie (the dog) flew back in February, after we bought a new house. I am currently working as Director of Engineering at a startup in Silicon Valley, and Rachel is starting a new career as a life coach. In other words we’re smack dab back into the life we left behind.

I don’t know when we’ll have a chance to live overseas again, but I’m sure we will. I think I’d like to live for a year in the Alps – somewhere where we can put the kids in school, ski for a season, and meet some interesting people. I’ve heard that Canazei, Italy might be a good place – if you think that’s true, or if you know other places we should be looking at in France, Switzerland or Italy, please let us know.

Until then, I have a couple of more Cornwall stories to tell…look for them soon.

With kindest regards,
– Frank and Rachel

My Favorite Stories

1. Starting At The Beginning
2. Where Are We?
3. Train Riding As Sport
4. It’s Not About Me Anymore
5. Going To The Doctor For A Gunky Eye
6. Do Pigs Poop Hamburgers Out?
7. Am I Hitch Hiking Or Driving?
8. The Stars Are Brighter In Cornwall
9. What Are We Doing in Cornwall?
10. Apples and Blackberries From The Garden
11. Time As A Luxury Item
12. Remembering The Things They Say And Do
13. Currency Games
14. Hovering Somewhere Over The Atlantic
15. Driving On The Wrong Side Of My Brain
16. A Present Giving Kind Of Day
17. Wet And Windy In Port Isaac
18. Learning To Crawl By Crawling Backwards
19. The Land That Stop Signs Forgot
20. Thanks For Your Feedback
21. Close Encounters Of The Cornwall Kind
22. Blogus Interruptus – Off To Florence
23. Welcome to Pisa: “No War, Yankee Go Home”
24. If It’s Monday It Must Be Perugia
25. Some Things Right And Wrong With Italy
26. Italy Wrapup
27. Remembering My Father, 1930 - 1999
28. Food As A Motor Control Incentive
29. First Impressions & Too Many Degrees Of Freedom
30. They Called It New England For A Reason
31. The Brits Are A Bit Nuts When It Comes To The Beach
32. Did I Really Go Surfing In November?
33. Our Very Own Christopher Robins
34. Trip To Southern France
35. Happy Thanksgiving To Our Family, Friends and Readers
36. How Old Is It Anyway? [Guest Entry]
37. Best Wishes For A Happy, Healthy And Peaceful New Year
38. Getting Our Pets To England
39. Playing Music Again
40. Settling In To Cornwall
41. To My Valentine
42. Life Reboot
43. Frank’s Wood - Bluebells, Communion and Stepping Stones
44. The Extraordinary In Our Lives
45. Making Life Simpler – Part I: No Forwarding Address
46. Welcome To Surrey, Just Keep Your Dog At Home
47. And What About Those Two Boys Of Yours?
48. The 7-11-ification of Politics In America
49. The Power of Language
50. Moving To England – What Do I Bring?
51. The Price of Gasoline
52. Year 1: An Emotional Rollercoaster
53. Moving To England – Getting Stuff There
54. Status Update: January 7, 2005
55. Questions About Cornwall Life
56. On Missing England
57. Things I Like About England - I
58. Things I Like About England - II

This is a test…

A good friend of ours, Haydn Reiss, sent me an email today about a video he’s just finished on George Lakoff. It’s available as a 25-minute DVD or VHS, from his Win With Language web site ($15).

If you haven’t heard of Lakoff, then you probably haven’t been reading many liberal political blogs and press this campaign season. He’s one of the founders of the Rockridge Institute, a think-tank dedicated to helping progressives reframe the political debate by first understanding the conservative use of language, and then helping them build their own common moral language.

Check it out!