It is beginning to look a lot like christmas…. every store you go. It is very American to dress up according to the season. Or maybe a Anglo-Saxon custom, because we all remember Mr. Darcy’s reindeer jumper from the first Bridget […]
Ewoldsen Trail Julia Pfeiffer Burn State Park, Big Sur, California My husband and I were lucky to sneak away for a couple’s weekend. We went and stayed in Monterey, CA and on Saturday we drove down Highway 1. We stopped at […]
If you have ever been to California, you hopefully have seen the most beautiful stretch of Highway 1 between Carmel-by-the-sea and Cambria. And if you haven’t been to the Golden State yet, make sure you won’t miss this part, because it […]
The capitol of my country was divided when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. I wasn’t born yet. People of West Berlin were separated from the outside world and could only get to West Germany on the road or rail transit. […]
Start something new! A year from now you will wish you had started today. Karen Lamb Someone posted this quote on facebook a pretty long time ago and I instantly liked it. So I’m using it as my writing prompt for today’s […]
After my post about the things I love about my life here, the opposite blogpost is now in order. You can’t get a decent “Brötchen”. Not even in a German bakery. No one here seems to have a clue how to […]
…is the best tradition in our neigborhood! We have a very lovable family on our street and Bonnie is the head coach of six great, funny and polite children! She is an inspiration for every mom out there. Her children are between 2 and 14 years […]
I joined the National Blog Posting Month on blogher.com This is gonna be a super fun challenge for me and hopefully a way to increase my readership. Are you a blogger yourself? Check it out and take on the challenge! […]
I often think about my parenting style here in the US and yesterday my friend sent me this article about “How to parent like a German”. I already had read it last year and reading it again made me wonder: Would […]
Winters, CA Whenever we are on a road trip in California, I’m using Yelp to find good places to eat nearby. That’s why we stopped in Winters on our way to Lassen Volcanic National Park this summer. We came from the […]
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