Carlomaria Grassi ||| An Ode to Living Abroad…and Coming Home

When the clocks jump back here, on a different day than in America, I’m temporarily thrown off kilter. Do NFL games start at 7pm or 6? Can I still call my mother in Los Angeles early in my morning? Do we invite the Hussons for drinks at 5:30 (disturbingly early for an apéro) so we can watch the sunset from the patio? Do I change the manual clock in the car or just leave it for six months? Decisions long ago made get thrown back at me and I must deal with the anxiety of re-deciding. I never get used to it ... An Ode to Living Abroad…and Coming Home — The Lighthouse — Medium