Get your English back to where it was…easy peasy!

How does this relate to you learning enough English so you can communicate with your own little carpet munchers? Maybe you already understand and even speak English when you travel, and you’d just like to practise a bit.

Tell me another story about baseball…oh, the humanity

Explaining baseball and trying to get across my love for the Cubs

Few Europeans can get into this weird antiquated game that such a small segment of society understands, or even wants to. How to present it to them, when they have little or no context

Shambolic indeed, but things are starting to settle down

shambolic: Word of the Day from Dictionary.com https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/shambolic-2020-06-05/ I’ve been meaning to get back to the blog, and now’s as good a time as any. Miriam’s mom passed last summer right after we had a scare and thought our 14-year-old Ella would die while we were in Italy. The old girl couldn’t make it up… Continue reading Shambolic indeed, but things are starting to settle down

You had a raincoat? and other obvious questions

Good morning 2020 (written early New Year’s Day morning). What a wild ride it’s already been, and I’m still in my pyjamas. My mother, who’s nickname when she was young was ‘Fafa’ so that’s what I call her here, and I have talked briefly, which because of the time difference between here and the States… Continue reading You had a raincoat? and other obvious questions

All of me

It’s been the best of holidays so far, but to badly mangle Tolstoy, it’s been the shittiest of holidays, as well. We knew it’d be weird without those loved ones that we’ve lost since last Christmas. As prepared as we might’ve been emotionally, grief is a weird mistress. She doesn’t play fair. Today, Miriam looked… Continue reading All of me

Another chapter in the book of Fafa

   The last week has been filled with adventures while my mother was in Germany. She made her annual European trip, which included a week in France, and then she and I met up in Strasbourg before our return to Munich.  She loves Munich – as I’ve often mentioned here, we lived here in the… Continue reading Another chapter in the book of Fafa

be peaceful, make peace, and stay true to yourself but not at the expense of other people or their level of comfort

My mom and little Benjamin. At this point, he was the newest addition to the family, and he continues to amaze all of us and ours. He has his dad’s ability to remember minutiae and he’s not shy about you knowing he knows it. He’s a storage container of vast amounts of trivia. Vast. We’re… Continue reading be peaceful, make peace, and stay true to yourself but not at the expense of other people or their level of comfort