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Why is “Liberal” such a bad word?

August 8, 2011

I don’t get what’s going on in American politics anymore (and apologies in advance for the rant, they seem to be going around recently. I don’t get the rise of the Tea Party.  I don’t understand why it’s so “weak” to be a liberal.  I don’t get that a fair number of my fellow Americans [...]

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I miss the Autobahn

March 22, 2011

And this isn’t about the lack of speed limits (and in case you’ve never been to Germany, there are speed limits on a large proportion of the Autobahn, so it’s not as exciting to drive as you think). A while ago, a friend asked me, what would I miss most from Germany if I moved [...]

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Making Friends in Germany

October 24, 2010

I read a Japanese proverb about friendships a little while back and it got me thinking about making friends as an expat in Germany.  It said something along the lines of, if you are a flower, you will attract butterflies.  Butterflies are there when you are beautiful and in bloom, but when you’re struggling and [...]

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More on Germany, the Holocaust and the Far Right

February 6, 2009

Two sides of Germany have been on my mind lately, exemplified by the reaction to the recent crisis in the Catholic church, and the continued existence of neo-Nazism and the far right. The Seriousness of Holocaust Denial I recently wrote about how German individuals react to what their countrymen did in WWII, and now recent [...]

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Germany after WWII, a personal perspective

January 9, 2009

Yankee in a New World recently asked on her blog if Germans and Americans have historical guilt in common.  I started to answer that no, I don’t think we really do, then realized I had so much to say that I needed to write it in a post. I think, out of countries that have [...]

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Must write update

August 20, 2008

That’s what I’ve been repeating to myself over the last week. All I can say for myself is, I’ve been busy. We spent the long weekend visiting the inlaws near Wittlich. On the way there we stopped at Idar-Oberstein, gemstone and jewelry capital of Germany, which I plan to blog about later. While at the [...]

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Chocolate Withdrawal

March 26, 2008

We spent this weekend with my in-laws and I think I gained back all the weight I lost over the last 8 months.  My jeans were tight when we left and I spent today going through chocolate withdrawal.  In case you don’t have a German mother-in-law, visits to a GMIL could qualify as world class [...]

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