by Robin | Oct 15, 2012 | Family, Memoir, Mom stuff, Personal
"I wish the world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are…I'm coming home now." ~ Felix Baumgartner, his last words before jumping from the edge of space Felix...
by Robin | Oct 8, 2012 | Advice, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
Years ago in a friend’s living room during a Beth Moore Bible Study (the big hair years), a woman informed me I was going straight to Hell and taking my daughter with me. I had just admitted I was taking my third grade daughter to see Harry Potter and the...
by Robin | Oct 4, 2012 | 31 Days in Europe, Adventures in Germany, Europe, Personal, Travel
Berlin is a city with a divided past. Living as an expat in Germany has flung wide History's door and left me wishing I had paid better attention in World History. The little I remember is disgraceful and I suppose I'm trying to make up for lost time by...
by Robin | Sep 1, 2012 | (in)courage, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
I don't see it coming when it happens– Time plays tricks on me. The catalyst? My children, a l w a y s m y b a b i e s. In front of Herrenchiemsee, King Ludwig II's New Palace, on Lake Chiemsee in Southern Bavaria,...
by Robin | Aug 19, 2012 | Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal
There is this moment, this really good moment, and I want to capture it the way you can hold memory forever in a picture. We're just riding, leaving the place she had chosen for her birthday dinner, where fate would have it that it was just a...
by Robin | Aug 1, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Europe, Personal, Photos, Travel, Traveling Red Dress
Who knew sweet Katie Couric was a THIEF? She STOLE the TRD from me! (Part one) A sister's tale aka Big Sisters are Bossy! (Part two) — I have no idea how many women have worn and been photographed in the original Traveling Red...