Archive for April, 2013

Purple

From a year ago: The Purple Lady was the kind of famous only crazy people get to be. I’d look for signs of her as we neared my grandparents’ town — electric poles painted purple as high as she could reach. I never saw her, and in those days I didn’t think she was crazy. […]

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Can you see it?

I remember as a child, riding on the train through the mountains near our town in Germany.  There, up high on a mountain above the train, stood a statue of a stag.  The statue wasn’t visible long, just for a moment, and I can still remember the wail of devastation when our friend’s little boy […]

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Sidelong Glances

I don’t know why I’ve been feeling the passage of time so acutely lately. Maybe because of this baby, probably my last, growing by such leaps and bounds. We watched some old episodes of Homicide this week, and I was stunned by how dated and old they felt, not like when I’d watched them with […]

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Deserving

We took a walk around the neighborhood the other night, something we always intend to do more often, as we intend to wander the forest paths that beckon right outside our front door.  We’re working on making these walks a priority.  Everyone loves them, we all feel better when we arrive home than we did […]

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More on Freiburg

I feel very honored to be included in MaryAnne’s World Culture for Kids series over on her blog Mama Smiles.  Here’s my post about Freiburg, but be sure to check out the other great posts in the World Culture for Kids series, as well as the rest of MaryAnne’s thoughtful and inspiring posts on joyful […]

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Copper Pennies

We arrived late, as we should have expected.  Google maps could factor in traffic delays, but we should have accounted for traveling with two small children and a baby.  The staff was gone for the day, but they had left our key in the wooden box nailed to the front of the red education building. […]

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Ode to a difficult dog

Two years ago today, we lost our Audrey, just days after finding out she had cancer.  I held her and sobbed on the floor of the vet’s office, reeling from the shock.  The tumor was under and through her tongue.  Completely inoperable, and getting bigger by the day. We’d adopted Audrey from our local city […]

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Tourists

Two years ago, we were getting ready to return to Germany for the first time in eleven years, the first time with children.  I lived in Germany for eight years of my childhood, and Tony and I spent our amazing, heartbreakingly beautiful junior year abroad in Berlin.  My childhood in Germany was an idyllic one, […]

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