We have a cat family looking for homes, either furrever, or temporary until we can get them a place in the foster system and /…
Today my mom would have been 70. Unfortunately, she passed away far too young at only 51. I and my younger siblings were all still…
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Grain by grain, pebble by pebble, drop by drop Building up, bit by bit behind the wall No door, no drain, no crack To relieve…
Every few nights, around 4 or 5 in the morning, one of the cats wakes us up because they want a pre-breakfast snack. Most often…
We have SNOW! Like, real snow. Enough to make snowballs. Enough for snow people. I know some of you are in places where you are…
My birthday occurs one week before Christmas. This brings with it the usual trials of an American with a birthday so close to the holidays:…
One of my disappoints the past two winters here in Potsdam has been the lack of snow. When I first arrived in March 2018, we…
Every day, Sylvia and I go outside for about 20-30 minutes to get some fresh air. To say we take a “walk” wouldn’t be quite…
We celebrated Thanksgiving this past Thursday like so many other Americans. It’s our fourth Thanksgiving in Germany. Our first was in 2017, when we used…