Travels and Tomes: One Expat's Amblings and Ramblings

• Memorial Day Amongst The Graves of Normandy and God's Town of the Frying Pans 2 years ago PART ONE You will ask yourself what the D-Day beaches, the allied graves in Normandy, and divinely sanctioned frying pays have to do with one another. It’s not a glib pairing. It’s the stuff of Normandy– and a reminder this Memorial Day, not only of the great sacrifices that have been made by...
• When Life Looks Grimm 2 years ago Outlook is everything. Better to be an optimist than a pessimist. This I won’t deny . . . however. . . I will say that life is complicated, and it’s better to understand finesse and grey areas than to see the world in stark terms of happy/sad, good/bad, obstacle/opportunity. To be sure, the...
• Here Comes Peter Cottontail: Easter Traditions in Germany 3 years ago Originally posted on Travels and Tomes: One Expat's Amblings and Ramblings: Dieser ist die Ostermarkt Sankt Wendel/This is the Easter Market in St. Wendel Easter markets are popping up all over Germany, and we visited the market at Sankt Wendel this weekend.  It was busy with market stalls...
• Lines Were Drawn: Simserhof and La Ligne Maginot 3 years ago Originally posted on Travels and Tomes: One Expat's Amblings and Ramblings: ? ? You have to draw a line somewhere, right?  And we’re a funny species…we draw lines everywhere.  But lines, once drawn, just ache to be crossed.  I’m not excusing this conduct, I’m just saying it seems to...
• Little Boy Found: 3 years ago My father at 4 years old I love the hidden stories implicit in a found object– an “objet trouvé,” as the French would say. (And everything sounds better in French.) The beauty of found objects lies partially in them being so full of possibility, but also in what they teach us of empathy when...

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