by Robin | Mar 30, 2015 | Europe, Favorite things, friendship, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized
Last year for my birthday I got a miracle. No exaggeration, textbook definition…I know miracles when I see miracles. It wasn’t that I had the good fortune of celebrating in Vienna, Austria (traveling with my husband on a business trip) or that I got...
by Robin | Apr 21, 2014 | Adventures in Germany, Europe, Funny Stuff!, Humor, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized
I’m out of breath riding backwards on a train sitting across from an Asian student who doesn’t speak English but who does speak German. She’s working on an exam of some sort, using a pencil and block eraser and painting her words beautiful, none of...
by Robin | Jan 9, 2013 | Adventures in Germany, Europe, Funny Stuff!
When I visited Venice last summer, one of the most unexpected discoveries was a fair trade shop somewhere off the beaten bath canal, whose name escapes me now (but I probably couldn't say anyway). The shop was overflowing with interesting bags and accessories, but...
by Robin | Dec 24, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Europe
During our ten-month expatriation to Germany, we had opportunity to visit dozens of churches…spectacular, architectural and artistic wonders, the likes of which would leave my jaw dragging the floor, stunned by their opulent beauty and painstaking detail....
by Robin | Dec 2, 2012 | 31 Days in Europe, Adventures in Germany, Beauty, Europe, Faith, Inspiring
For the beauty of the earth, A beautiful remembrance for the glory of the skies, Paragliding near Erlangen, Bavaria for the love which from our birth Floral beauty in Dresden over and around us lies; A chapel in the middle of the Alps, somewhere in...
by Robin | Nov 18, 2012 | Europe, Travel
The Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, aka Westminster Abbey, coronation church since 1066. Even if you knew nothing about its impressive history, its magnificent architecture would bow your knee in praise to the Creator who gives men the mind...