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Going to Hungary I didn’t know a ton of Hungarian specific history. Leaving, I now know that I don’t know anything about their very turbulent and complicated place in European history! 🤣 I was often digging up interesting, although cursory, contextual information and making notes about what else to research.  We took a narrated river cruise down the Danube on our first night. This is the Hungarian Parliment building. Stunning.  I tried to watch videos before coming. The kind I would show in class with silly animations, John Green, and a focused audience with little to no background context. I was still pretty lost until they got to the 1900s. The entire “move to Europe” experience has me feeling like a student and understanding how history can be so overwhelming and inaccessible. I’m also reminded of my Historiogrpahy class with Dr Heaton. One that felt pretty useless in the moment but I’m often thinking about. There are little “facts” in history but rather perpsective, conte...

**An Olaf Appreciation Post with an Overdose of Pictures** If Olaf had a dating app profile, this would be it!   A few months ago we had a very scary situation with Olaf that brought the inevitable that lives in the far reaches of doggy parents' minds to the forefront. With the miracle of pharmaceuticals we know that we've been given more time to snuggle his drooly face. Reflecting on those 96hrs I wanted to make an Olaf Appreciation Post knowing that when time does run out we will be too heartbroken to write but the light he brings us deserves a moment of recognition. Olaf's adoption day! I had to chaperone prom on my 30th birthday, so Jackie and Brian drove to Anchorage on a "suicide" trip to bring him home. For our non AK folk, that means 360 miles south to Anchorage and back home in one day.  Itsy bitsy teeny weeny prior to having lots of Italian linguine! Also adoption day! As English bulldog parents, we are no strangers to their relentless panting, snoring, ...