Foreign Places, Foreign Tongues
Since starting my blog in November 2008, it has had four different names and iterations. I think I've finally settled on the name -- "My Vine Life: Life on the Vine" -- that will last. Depending on how far back into the archives you go, you'll learn that I did two deployments to Iraq with the Army Corps of Engineers. This blog started with the second deployment as a way to keep my family and friends apprised of how I was doing. For me, this was pre-Facebook, Instagram and smart phone. The great technological advancement of that deployment was using Skpe to video chat with Tom. The blog was called "Pilgrim in the Cradle." Then the blog morphed into "Pilgrim in the Unions" when we moved to Germany. The name was a salute to the fact that we were living within the European Union and my job focused on the nations that comprise the African Union. And then, with our move back to the States, the blog became "Casa de Gato Gordo" -- Ho