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Almost Back Home
Almost home. We flew over Iceland yesterday and even though there was just a brief lay-over, this is a country I’d love to visit in the future. With its magic light, friendly people, blue glaciers and...
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Small Things and a Tasty Surprise
This week the kids are out of school and I have a bad cold. My poor child has been house bound with me for days and it’s vacation time. Enough, I thought, we’re all going on a trip. Rochester NY is...
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Summer is here: Vardos, Roulottes and Caravans….
(c) Les Verdines Fresh from my daughter’s Wizard of Oz performance, I’ve been thinking about the definition of “home”. What defines our experience of home. Is it a place? Friends? Or a feeling? I find...
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Flokati Rugs and MassMoca
Do you remember the old flokati rugs, the shaggy ones from the seventies? I had one and it was impossible to keep clean. This is what I should have done with mine before throwing it out. Anna Betbeze...
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Backpacking or Bourbon Packing
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac Did Jack Kerouac travel with a suitcase? Only one week left until...
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Travel and Food
What do you eat when you’re on the road? Yesterday I cooked some food for our upcoming trip. In the past, I used to eat whatever it is that they serve on the airplane because I never planned in advance...
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Manipulations of the Week
This week I manipulated many things, all except fabric. It’s the last Sunday of June and sadly I have nothing to show you. However I did manipulate a floor – that “darn” floor, that never became, and...
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Postcard from Weimar
What looks like a typical Italian street scene above, is instead Weimar, a town in the Eastern part of Germany. I had never really visited the former East except for Berlin and was curious how it...
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Postcard from the Cotton Mill
“Herzliche Gruesse aus der Baumwollspinnerei” (“Greetings from the cotton mill”) Normally I chose a place to visit and then look for a centrally located apartment to explore the surroundings. However,...
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Late Summer Room with a View
This was my “Room with a View” this summer: One foggy late summer morning from my bed room window in the Black Forest. After a long summer here in Germany I’m now ready to go home. I found plenty of...
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