7pm on New Years Eve and I’m sitting in the passenger seat of our car. We are driving on German autobahn en route home after dropping Dad at the airport in Frankfurt. With the exception of Strasbourg highways and by-ways, I think that this route between Strasbourg and Frankfurt has been my most frequented … More … And it’s time to crack open the bubbles to bring in the new year.Â
Earlier last week, I took a ‘me’ day- I had intended to spend my morning helping a friend make cake pops, and the girls have been asking to take a cantine meal, so I decided on the ‘me’ day. It helped me even more that Tuesday is Alex’s long school day- she finishes at … More Merry Christmas to you all
Hello my dear lovely friends. This is well and truly similar to my letters to you in the ‘old days’, when you wouldn’t hear from me for ages, and then out of the blue, I would pop 16 pages of assorted thoughts, random scribblings, and way more idiotic frustrations than any 20-ish should have to listen to! I am looking … More No news is good news.Â
August 30th, 2015 would have been a special day in the lives of my family. It would have been Mom and Dad’s Ruby Wedding Anniversary…40 years of marriage. Â I still remember my grandparents 40th wedding anniversary in 1986- me, my brother and my cousins were given a boarding school pass for the night to attend … More A Pilgrimage
Growing up, strawberries would grow in abundance in our garden every October, and not one year would go by (that I can remember) that I would not have a Hot Milk Sponge Cake made by Mom, and it would be covered in garden-grown strawbs’s. Mom would always use a butter icing over it, and later … More Baking and Mom’s Sponge Cake
Mothers Day-10 May. 10pm. How many times today have I stopped to look at something and think of her? How many times have I felt her absence? A perfect bottle of nearly empty Coco Chanel. The shopping list and her familiar handwriting. Her specs lying near the basket of keys. The flowers that are beginning to … More My Broken Heart
Pinot, Bretzels, and Cathedrals 