This is actually a response to a question Lisa posted about my recent decision to go vegetarian. I’m thinking the q&a is worthy of its own entry, so here goes:
Lisa wrote:
“Are you serious about the vegetarian thing? I’ve been seriously thinking about that myself. How’s it going with your change? Is it hard to […]

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Woke this morning with a 101° fever. Guess it’s time to take to my bed with a copy of Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women’ and hope it turns out better for me than it did for poor Beth…

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It’s 12° with winds whipping out of the wsw at a brisk 26kph. The sun’s flirting with me behind fluffy, white clouds, and suddenly all seems right in the world. So complete is my weather-satisfaction that I want to don my most sensible woolen frock, attach a crisp white apron, […]

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With confirmed cases of H5N1 (bird flu) in both Nürnberg and Leipzig, I’m just happy I’ve already kicked my chicken nugget habit…

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Christina from An American Expat in Deutschland posted a link to a personality quiz thingy, and after reading its description of her (which seemed fairly accurate from what I know of her), I figured I’d give it a try too. I ended up taking the damn thing 3 times and all […]

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To say my husband’s smart would be like saying Mt. Everest is tall… it’s an understatement. And with his advanced mathematical genius comes a level of geekatude that I’m constantly finding hilarious - especially because he’s in no way, shape, or form trying to be funny. Case in point, an email I […]

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Everything happens for a reason, I’ve always believed that. So while I was uber-annoyed we weren’t leaving Friday for Regensburg as planned (I’d had what I deemed at the time a shitty day and couldn’t wait to get away), I should have know there was a reason why. By […]

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I’ve spent too much time in my head this week… dredging up old memories and writing until the wee hours of the morning. Time to shake it off while I still can and reacquaint myself with ‘fun’.
This weekend we’re headed to Regensburg, where we almost ended up […]

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You have no idea the lengths we went to in order to get this here… but it was totally worth it. The yummy goodness of Boo Berry can only be surpassed by the incredible yummy goodness of Franken Berry. Which, sadly, we couldn’t track down. I’m not complaining though… in fact, […]

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As of this afternoon school is officially out for Robyn and Sydney. Robbie’s thrilled because she’ll (said with lots of teenage exasperation) finally be in high school, and Sydney’s excited because she’s going into first grade- where the learning actually starts. Kindergarten in germany is basically glorified babysitting, not […]

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