In case you don’t know by now, we went to Florida for two weeks over Christmas — and 4 of those days were spent in Orlando. We decided to visit SeaWorld and had the absolute best time. We really couldn’t have asked for a better vacation — and...
The American journalist Ellen Goodman once said, “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and...
There is no doubt that one of the hardest obstacles to overcome when you decide to move to Germany is the language…assuming you don’t speak German already. Those who speak other languages like Spanish, Italian or French may find the sentence structure...
It’s been a few weeks since you were last able to peek into our garden…and there have actually been some noteworthy changes. We’ve had unusually warm weather here for the last few weeks, with only one brief freeze while we were gone (not that...
As you probably know, I’m an American expat living in Germany since 2001. I’m originally from Texas but went to high school in Virginia and U of Miami in Florida (the latter of which is where I met my husband). I started blogging back in 2006, when I was...