by Robin | Jul 31, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Beauty, Family, Memoir, Personal, Traveling Red Dress
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. ~ Marion C. Garretty {continued from A Modern-day Fairytale} "One ringy-dingy…" She used to sit on the toilet – lid down – an adoring audience of one. I was the...
by Robin | Jul 30, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Beauty, BIG Announcements, Blog friends, Blogging, Celebrations, Europe, Favorite things, Memoir, Personal, Photos, Traveling Red Dress
________________________________________________________________ I'm cracking up after she commanded me to "Wink!" Now those pictures are FUNNY because, news to me, I look like a circus freak when I wink… My sister took a thousand...
by Robin | Jun 22, 2012 | Personal, Writing
What would you do if you knew you could not fail? ~ Robert Schuller March, 2012, near Erlangen, Bavaria (Germany). Soaring on blue skies and skipping on clouds. Seriously, WHAT would you do if you knew you could not fail? At the top of my list...
by Robin | May 21, 2012 | Family, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Personal, Poetry
between the lines it's impossible for them to know this tender desperation insisting, impetuous be still, my heart! pounding pounding each wisp of time skin to skin, sweet assurance still here still here for a while not for an ever looking at them,...
by Robin | May 9, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Funny Stuff!, Memoir, Personal, Travel
Salzburg is famous for a lot of reasons ~ birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart where The Sound of Music was filmed beautiful baroque architecture with some of the most famous churches in the world it sits at the northern boundary of the Alps and borders the Salzach...
by Robin | May 1, 2012 | Family, Kids, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
I missed his birthday. I didn't forget it, that would be ridiculous…impossible. But with an ocean dividing us and 5,000 miles in between, I wasn't there for a sweet indulgence, his TWO favorite desserts for breakfast; neither of them a birthday...