When our cultural icons die

September 7, 2026
As I write this we’ve just lost both Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem, two women who helped shape our generation. Why do I feel such grief? It hits differently when a cultural icon dies. The grief can seem strangely disproportionate to the relationship we actually had with them. We had...

Authentic Apple Strudel Recipe

December 26, 2014
If there's one thing we had an overload of on our recent Danube River cruise, it was apple strudel. Oh, do the Austrians and Germans love the stuff.  And so does my...

Merry Christmas to you all

December 25, 2014
Merry Christmas! We're making merry at our house today and I hope you're doing the same at yours. Warm wishes to you for a wonderful...

Pope to Vatican: be Christians!

December 24, 2014
In a world that seems to be increasingly dark,  one bright light stands out, and that is our current Pope Francis, who is shaking things up at the Vatican in a very...

Racial divide: too real

December 23, 2014
One 30-year-old local who gave his first name only as Carlos, didn’t hear the fatal gunfire but saw the hysteria aftewards and walked to the police tape. “A lot...

Making gingerbread in Germany

December 22, 2014
I wouldn't have minded, really, it would have been fun--but no, we didn't make it. We did get to watch the Family Simon show us the making gingerbread process, as well...

A Christmas market in Regensburg

December 21, 2014
I'm sure you'd like to know what a Christmas market is really like, right? We went to quite a few, but one that stands out is at the Thurn and Taxis Palace in...

Alpacas, camels, kids: German Christmas market

December 20, 2014
Alpacas aren't the first things to come to mind when someone says "Christmas market." In fact, they never come to mind at all.  But they were absolutely the cutest...

Old co-exists with new at Melk Abbey

December 19, 2014
Melk is a tiny lower Austrian town of about 5,000 people noted for one thing: its massive, baroque Benedictine abbey. It's huge, but houses only 33 monks, a church...

The latest gossip from Passau, Germany

December 18, 2014
Passau is a charming town in the lower Bavaria part of  Germany near the Austrian border. It's known as The Three Rivers City, because three rivers converge at the...

Waltzing through Vienna

December 17, 2014
Well, ok. I'll admit that I have never really mastered the waltz, so I did no waltzing through Vienna. We strolled. But where to start in this, one of the most...

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