Sara Sarver

So, I just now realized that I didn’t get around to any posts other than my Tasty Tuesday last week. Must have been busy, right? Considering we’ve been working on the exterior portion of our house, and the fact that we had 15 people for supper on Sunday (for which I made most of the [...]

There are times when I think I should have been born in another country.  Why?  Because I either identify with a particular aspect of the culture, or I really enjoy a wide range of foods from whatever nation that may be.  Let it be known that I love pretty much any kind of Greek or [...]

I think the people who were born to be teachers have to be of a slightly different breed from the rest.  Strange creatures they are… and the better a teacher they are, the stranger they must be. After all, who would want to spend their entire day, every day, 180+ days of the year with [...]

Last week was limes, this week it’s lemons!  Glorious, yellow, tartly sweet, juicy, fragrant lemons. Can you tell I haven’t had the luxury of tasting, using, or holding a lemon in my very own hand for a while?  It’s true, over the course of 13 months living in Thailand, I have only seen lemons 3 [...]

It’s one thing to simply learn a foreign language in order to be able to both understand and speak its words well. It’s another to understand the culture from which the language comes. And, it’s a whole other thing to try combining the two so you can understand what people actually mean when they are [...]

You may remember a certain cookie that I mentioned in a previous post called Lime Meltaways.  I told you then that the recipe would follow, and today’s that day.  I don’t have pics of my own cookies, as they got packaged up too quickly last time!  So, I’ll provide you with a photo from the [...]

Here it is again – the e-copy of our regular mailable newsletter. There may not be much new to you if you follow either Brook or I here on our blogs, on Facebook, or even on Twitter… but, go ahead and check it out anyway.  :)  Just click the image below to begin downloading. If [...]

When residing outside your country of origin, it’s pretty interesting to see which bits of your home culture are pulled out and used to identify you by the people in other nations.  Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don’t.  Sometimes it can make you laugh, sometimes it can make you angry.  Whatever it is, [...]