Bem Vindo a Lisboa!
Right, Welcome to Lisbon! Sorry for the long hiatus after our previous post from England, We Are Those Merry Wanderers, but Sarah and I decided to return to the US
Author: David Hassler
David M. Hassler was fortunate enough to have become a relatively rare male Trailing Spouse when his talented wife Sarah accepted a job teaching music in the elementary division of the American International School in Chennai, India, in 2017. His role included, for more than three years there, serving as her everything wallah, but also allowed him time for exploring, discovering, and sharing new places, new faces, and new tastes around Chennai, throughout south India, and beyond. When the pandemic arrived, Sarah retired and they moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where they continue to live and love life. David M. Hassler is a long-time member of the Indiana Writers Center Faculty and holds an MFA from Spalding University. His work has been published in Maize and the Santa Fe Writers' Project. He served as a Student Editor for The Louisville Review and as Technical Editor for Writing Fiction for Dummies. He is currently the Fiction Editor for Flying Island, an online literary journal. He is co-author of Muse: An Ekphrastic Trio, and Warp, a Speculative Trio, and future projects include A Distant Polyphony, a collection of linked stories about music and love, memories and loss; and To Strike a Single Hour, a Civil War novel that seeks the truth in one of P T Barnum's creations. He is a founding partner in Boulevard Press.
We Are Those Merry Wanderers . . .
Okay, so we’re plagiarizing and compromising Puck’s line to the fairies from Midsummer Night’s Dream, but Sarah and I are headed toward the Cotswolds and the land of Shakespeare, so
Coddiwomple!
In this day and age of the virus, so many of our friends and colleagues have had to quarantine or isolate when they arrived in a new country—or even sometimes
From Incredible to Merry Olde
Sarah and I bid a fond Saturday morning farewell to Chennai recently—we were surprised and delighted by the dozen or so friends who were waiting on the street to wave
Who Would Ever Have Believed . . .
Who would ever have believed that our three plus years as expats abroad would witness the world slowing to a crawl in so many ways as people all over the
On the Street Where You Live
As we all work our way the through the uncertainty of new virus fears, restrictions, and lockdowns; of parceling out our sambar and our tender coconut water and our red
Sarah Conducts an Honors Choir in Bangladesh!
Although Sarah was disappointed that she had to cancel her presentations at the Association of Music in International Schools’ (AMIS) annual conference in Hong Kong last November–due to her first
Kerala: India’s Magical Secret Gem
Sarah and I had been told we needed to visit Kerala ever since we moved to Chennai nearly three years ago. Of course, we’d rarely even heard of Kerala–the state
Under the Spell of the Himalayas, Part II
So, what could possibly top our first few magical days in Himachal Pradesh, that included sharing a contemplative, rainy hour with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, the Tibetan Buddhist nun who meditated
Under the Spell of the Himalayas, Part I
While Sarah and I don’t usually think about having a travel bucket list, the magical sonority of those tantalizing words, Himalayas and Dharamshala, held a special place for us even
