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The Off the Beaten Path Challenge

September 25, 2008

Yes, that’s right, I’m challenging YOU!  The challenge is to come up with at least one off the beaten path thing to do in your city, town, neighborhood, or region.  Things that most of the travel guides overlook.  Is your town not mentioned in travel guides?  Then this’ll be a cinch for you. What do you [...]

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I am a link whore

February 27, 2008

It used to be that when I found a cool new blog, I added it to my Google Reader, read it for a few weeks to months, joined in the blog’s community by commenting at least semi-frequently, then finally, after careful deliberation, added the blog to my blogroll.  Well, not anymore.  I just don’t have [...]

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Open Book Meme

February 9, 2008

Swenglishexpat has tagged me for the ‘Open Book’ meme. These are the instructions: 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open it at page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence/ phrase. 4. Blog the next four sentences/ phrases together with these instructions. 5. Don’t you dare dig your shelves for that very special or intellectual book. 6. [...]

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Buying Baby Stuff in Deutschland

September 30, 2007

Here’s a list of websites that are either in Germany or will ship baby stuff to Germany. I’ve put an asterisk behind websites that I’ve used and been happy with (*=ordered once, **=twice, ***=three or more times). As I come across new sites, I will update this list. See also a related post, Buying Maternity [...]

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Interview with a Canadian Expat

August 30, 2007

Lynn is a Canadian expat that I made friends with in Potsdam who has since moved to Australia. When I met her, she had an almost two year old daughter and was six months pregnant. I’d been opening up more to the idea of being a mom, but getting to know her and seeing her [...]

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Countdown to Live Earth

July 6, 2007

Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group and other [...]

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A lot of this and that

June 6, 2007

You may or may not have noticed, but I’ve decided to change my Blogger screenname to “Christina G”, in order to avoid confusion with Christina (Mausi). I thought about using “CG” instead, as that has been a nickname of mine in the past, but I figure there are a lot more “CG”s out there than [...]

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