I think the title says it all! Because being a two-time childhood cancer survivor and 22 years cancer free today means I get to use Taylor Swift’s song…
Happy Thanksgiving to all my family and friends both near and far! I’m spending another Thanksgiving 4,000 miles away from home but I’m lucky enough to have my…
25 years! 25 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell (also known as der Mauerfall in German or literally “the wall fall”). Although there had been rising protests in…
I must admit, I started writing this over 3 weeks and haven’t had the heart to post it. I figured that the longer I waited to post this,…
My friends joke that I will use any excuse to have a celebration. I love celebrating everything…from the small, insignificant events in life to patriotic holidays! There is…
Normandy is, hands down, one of the best places in all of Europe. When my family traveled to Europe during the summer of 2012, we stopped in the…
May 1st is a major public holiday in Germany…the equivalent of Labor Day in the United States. This year, May 1st fell on a Thursday which meant the…