Need a new cabinet but can’t find one you like? Why not try making your own? That’s what Monica did in Mobile. (more…)

Germans get a head start celebrating Mardi Gras ("Karneval"). The "crazy days" start on November 11th, officially at 11:11 a.m. When I went to the Frankfurt airport a few days later for my Thanksgiving trip to Mobile, some must have thought that I was a Mardi Gras enthusiast! (more…)

If you had a foreign guest in your home and wanted to thank him for something, how would you do it? How about baking him a traditional pastry from his home country? (more…)

35 years after having lived in St. Louis, Missouri, I can look back and see that I have increased "ten-fold". Not in terms of size, weight, finances or anything like that, though. (more…)

October was an unusual month for most of Germany. Records were set for the number of sunshine hours in some places, and with temperatures in the 60s and 70s for most of the month you almost had to wonder where you were! (more…)