This JCPenney commercial has absolutely nothing to do with Germany, but I found it so wrong on so many levels, that i just had to post it. What are they thinking? How can they turn one of my generations defining movies (The Breakfast Club) into a...
Topics: An American Expat in Deutschland

For my birthday last year, Rainer got me a cooking class with star chef Christian Graf von Walderdorff at the Restaurant Rosenpalais. I was pregnant at the time, and during my pregnancy, I couldn’t stand to touch raw meat and the thought of fish...
Topics: An American Expat in Deutschland, chocolate, cooking class, etouffé, Food and Drink, gnocchi, octopus, Oliver, pigeon, Rainer, Regensburg, restaurants, Rosenpalais, shrimp

I was actually not solely busy with Oliver the last few weeks, a lot of my time has been spent installing, designing and in general getting a new blog up and ready to go. Blythe, Maria, Tammy, Lynn and I are all coauthors on our new site,...
Topics: blythe, breastfeeding, Lynn, MamasWorldwide, Maria, parenting, public breastfeeding, Tammy, Tips for Expats

Sunday was the local town festival, and I thought I’d give you a sample of what you might see at a typical Bavarian fest.And what would our little Bavarian be without his Lederhosen?
Topics: accordians, brass bands, Buergerfest, festivals, Laaber, lederhosen, music, Oliver, Video Wednesday, videos

I’m guessing that if you hadn’t heard Obama was in Berlin last week, you probably live under a rock and are therefore not reading this blog.I really wanted to go to the speech, but had to watch it on television instead. In retrospect,...
Topics: Barack Obama, Berlin, brandenburg gate, Germany, jfk, Oliver, Politics, Rainer, victory column