Thank goodness for technology!

While living in Switzerland is truly wonderful and I have found it fairly easy to adapt to living here, I do miss my family and friends and dear sweet puppy. I am so thankful for Skype and GoogleChat! It is so incredible to be able to essentially talk face-to-face with my loved ones. And for free!

In some ways it makes being away easier, but it does also create a conundrum of balancing living and investing here and of maintaining relationships home. At any rate, it is my sister Ruth's birthday this week, and as part of the celebration we had a big family Skype, complete with puppy! It was lovely to be "together" as a family, and I don't remember laughing so hard in a while...

**Photo credit: Liz Page