Going. Cautiously. Nowhere.

And we're back. Thanks for your patience while we went through technical upgrades and huge life decisions and repeated medical emergencies. Here's the news: we're moving back to the USA, after careful consideration of the entire set of choices, futures, and possibilities that staying versus returning would grant us. Turns out that I was wrong on the homeschooling front, and while in Japan I did a lot of meditating on the future of the children, and realized what Rachel had apparently recognized years ago -- if we don't raise them to counter the culture, then nobody else will. And until Ticino changes its cantonal laws, home schooling is not an option under the current bureaucracy. So we're resuming what is essentially a slow and generational revolution. Seeing this sign in Lugano made the lightbulb pop: not only did it make us ask - Where did we think we were going? - but it also made us think about our experience of the overall direction that European culture itself seems to be headed in: death by boredom, loss of nerve, and disappearance of the lust for life. The charmed life of an American expatriate Europhile may seem romantic if you're reading this back in puddletown, but the reality is not half so romantic as our cropped photographs make it seem, and the long-term sustainability of the whole enterprise is about zero. And of course, this is its own puddletown in just as many ways as the one you're in. So we're coming back across the pond, jumping into an even smaller puddle, and planning on making a splash. More soon on all that.

We look forward to rejoining you, our distant friends, this coming July.