My Grandmother Agnes died 17th of August this year. She died of heart failure in the house she was born in 95 years ago while warming a crepe she was about to have. I read a shorter version of this eulogy at her funeral last week. Agnes was the daughter of the butcher, she was […]
Wonderful
Cleaning is messy business.
Last Saturday, Frederik and the kids left for a week of visiting family and friends in Belgium. As I already spent some marvellous vacation days in Seattle, I unfortunately could not join them now (but I am doing so next Saturday). They literally had not left yet and I was doing what I had planned […]
Customer Service. American Style
I have had the most wonderful vacation! Two weeks of Seattle. Just me. No kids or husband. Two weeks of people and things I have missed so much over the last couple of years. It was so good that it hurts a little now sitting back on my couch in Germany. Anyways. Here is a […]
Where is home when your heart is everywhere?
Two big suitcases, a one and a half year old and our bike trailer in a big cardboard box was all we had when we landed in Seattle in October 2011. I still remember the ride Frederiks’ professor gave us to our rental vividly. As if we had arrived in outer space. Even Janne did […]
Swimming in the Pool. With an Electric Eel. Part two
I tried my very best to get up to speed by reading all the emails in the immense inbox of the pool and by (trying to) answer them. At this point, every email or letter I opened posed a new question. “Is the first weekend of the summer vacation still available for a tent night? […]