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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: Where The Heart Is?

Posted on April 5, 2016 | Blog Category:
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When friends and family from Vermont ask how we’re doing during our five-month sabbatical in Berkeley, California, I usually answer, “It’s been a good experience. But it’s not home.”

The funny thing is, it was home.

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: The Surprising Joy of Homeschooling

Posted on March 22, 2016 | Blog Category:
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Husband: I was thinking we could go to Berkeley for the second half of my sabbatical. We have family and friends there, and I could do research in my old department at UC Berkeley.

Me: Sure, that makes sense.

Husband: And we’d enroll the girls in school in Berkeley for the spring?

Me: Oh no, I’ll just homeschool them while we’re out there.

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: Journey to Points South

Posted on March 8, 2016 | Blog Category:
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In mid-February our family left the house we’re renting during my husband’s sabbatical in Berkeley, California and drove south for eight hours.

Our destination: Orange County, a sprawling collection of suburbs just south of Los Angeles.

Our purpose: To visit my husband’s brother and his family…and Disneyland.

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: Sing a Song of Traffic

Posted on February 23, 2016 | Blog Category:
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The other day, my daughters were playing on the brick patio that constitutes the backyard of our rental house in Berkeley, California. As two of them scooted around on toy cars belonging to our landlords’ son, I observed the following exchange:

Bringing their vehicles to a sudden stop at right angles to each other, one daughter said, “You go ahead.”

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: This Old House

Posted on February 9, 2016 | Blog Category:
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About nine months ago, my husband and I decided to start looking for a place to live during our sabbatical in Berkeley, California. Sitting at home in Vermont, we assumed it would be no problem to find a furnished rental home for a family with four young children and a dog, within walking distance of UC Berkeley, on an assistant professor’s salary.

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: The Honeymoon Ends

Posted on January 26, 2016 | Blog Category:
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Our first two days in Northern California were filled with palm trees, rainbows, and loving grandparents. On the morning of the third day – the day we would leave the comfort of the grandparents’ house and move into our rental house in Berkeley – I fell down the stairs.

As Mick Jagger said (or was it Richard Nixon?): “The honeymoon don’t last forever, kid.”

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Faith in Vermont: California Sabbatical, Day 1: Palm Trees!

Posted on January 12, 2016 | Blog Category:
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“Wait, people are just allowed to have palm trees in their yards?” my eldest daughter marveled on our first day in California’s Bay Area.

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Faith in Vermont: Saying Goodbye: It's Deja vu All Over Again

Posted on December 30, 2015 | Blog Category:
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Last week, the woman behind me in the Hannaford supermarket check-out line asked if I knew where Salon Déjà vu was located. She wanted to get a gift certificate for somebody, she told me, but the address that she’d been given led her to the wrong place, and nobody answered the phone at the number she’d found online.

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Faith in Vermont: Current Events, Common Sense, and Craft Fairs

Posted on December 15, 2015 | Blog Category:
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It is difficult for the human mind to commit itself to one thing, and to maintain focus upon that thing in order to see it through to completion.

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Faith in Vermont: Five Misconceptions About Sabbatical

Posted on December 1, 2015 | Blog Category:
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