A Bavarian show and tell (a fun series of 3s)
Between keeping busy, traveling or taking daytrips, and general tech issues with my computer or the internet, I haven't blogged nearly as much as I'd like to. To share a lot of our experience in a few words and pictures, I decided to do so topically. ...
Love and gifts
From the beginning, I considered the opportunity to live abroad for a short while a God-gift... ...life circumstance preceding my husband's job offer only underscored that truth. The delights and challenges about which I speculated have all come to pass,...
Inertia: a modern-day discovery and application
Inertia Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. Marienplatz, Munich, February 2012. Dinner is served! It's doubtful Newton had in mind...
On friendship: 3 proverbial thoughts
Sometimes friendship is plain hard. What should come easily, eludes... What everyone else seems to have in bountiful supply, you lack... Never do you feel more alone than when you're in a crowd of women whom you like or admire or want to know, but they appear not...
A visit to the Austrian Alps (and no wonder Julie Andrews burst into song!)
Angry splotches of purple with irregular, banana-esque edge, my three week-old bruises confirm what I hate to admit: snow skiing ain't my thing. But it's how my husband wanted to celebrate his birthday, so off to the Austrian Alps we...
A Bavarian Market in words and pictures–LOTS of pictures!
The first time I went to Burghausen's Weekly Open Air Market, it was single digits and my camera froze shortly after arriving; but not before I captured a few of the sights-- I'm not sure if it's an octopus or a squid (I'm thinking the former), but does it really...
The conviction of a mother
It occurred to me while I was in the shower. ten thousand tears splattered glass bleeding tributaries invisible walls cry out desperate to be heard a crimson tee shirt hangs over the side of the tub, and through glass illusion i hear the song. * ...
Serendipity and the Schäffler
There was no way to know when the decision was made, but we couldn't have chosen a better time to agree to a job change that would take us half-way around the world. First, there was , a phenomenon so significant and an undertaking so grand it has...
Chasing brave
“Without fear there cannot be courage.” ~ Christopher Paolini I'm a self-professed fraidy cat. I'm not very brave. I fear the unknown. It's not that I'm a worrier, though I can't quite reconcile the two; it's more that I'm held hostage by irrational...