Delora in España

The Spanish are wringing their hands over this picture that appeared recently in the local Spanish papers after being leaked from the U.S....

We've been city dwellers for 6 weeks now, so I don't expect to hear cows mooing in my apartment.  Yet, there it is again, coming fr...

(Forward to minute 2 when he loosens his jacket and the fun begins) Recently, Chip and I were lucky enough to be given tickets to see ...

You may know that we have teenaged triplets; you might not know that we have Irish twins.  Lucia, Clark and Sam's brotha-from-another-...

T-shirts seen while walking the streets of Madrid: Daddy's Bitch Huge like that! (on a body builder type) Abercrambie NYS (New York ...

Would you rather purchase this meat -- whatever it is... Or this one? Or this one?

List of Perkins' Childrens' Transgressions on their First Day of Spanish School 1. Loosening  shoe .  Clark was reprimanded for l...

School started today.  You can see for yourself the kind of excitement we all felt.  We received several different answers about when and wh...

We decide to dine at a place in our hood tonight - Fabula.  It reminds us of a hip restaurant from home with modern art, dark walls and elec...

Some people are genius grocery shoppers.  I am not.  There's nothing I hate more than going to a Super Stop & Shop.  I start to hy...

Clark and Sam slept in Sam's twin beds.  It's noon and I don't hear a peep. I enter the room, dark except for the glow of match...

Javier Bardem, in Vicky Christina Barcelona, is the real reason the boys wanted to move to Spain. Perhaps, against my best parental judgeme...

Happy Birthday, Gill-man!

Here's the course line up for their new Spanish school: 1. Lengua Castellana y Literatura (Spanish language and literature) 2. I...

It's the unofficial miniature Dachshund capital of the world... Supreme body confidence! Every woman, no matter how flabby, obese, or e...

Occasionally, teenage children will exaggerate. For instance, they'll call you on their first day of Spanish immersion camp, as Lucia ...

When looking for apartments in Spain, no one warns you to check if the elevator (el ascensor) works. Ours, a beautiful baroque wrought ir...

A partial list of broken items in the apartment we're renting: No cold water in the kitchen Broken dishwasher (circa 1995) Broken was...

Kind of. We're here, but it looks like it'll be a while until we're settled. We knew this move would be a cosmic lesson in pat...