New Year’s Day Sunrise Tradition
Celebrating New Year’s Day by watching the sun rise.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all of you! We truly appreciate your support and want to say thank you for everything you’ve given us in 2012! We look forward to good things in 2013 and wish you all the best in the new year. R +…
Expat Thanksgiving #2
I didn’t get ANY photos of Thanksgiving Dinner, Round II, because I was too busy taking pictures of Hazel. And holding Hazel. And dying over what Ashley calls Hazel’s evil eye, which she cast upon us all as she was forced to sit on the…
Thanksgiving
We spent our Thanksgiving at a German friend’s house. It wasn’t intended to be “Thanksgiving dinner” (she’d extended the invitation without realizing the date) but that didn’t matter; it was just nice to have a meal with two wonderful people. She served creamy celeriac soup…
Pinboard
Happy Fourth of July everybody! This is a day when I think a lot about home and what the 4th traditionally meant to me, which is all about being up at the lake. Grilling, suits and towels drying on the line, and getting together with…
New Year’s Day
We stayed at an (awesome) Airbnb sublet in Oakland these last couple of nights—that’s the building and our wheels—until packing it up on New Year’s Day to continue south through Big Sur. We kept with the beach picnic tradition and had a lunch of mackerel…
New Year’s Eve
By Rebecca Happy New Year, all! We spent our eve at a friend’s house perched high on a hill in Oakland with a view of the bay. The moon was crazy big and red and it got bigger and bigger as it set behind San…
Fourth of July.
Last year’s Fourth was a scorcher; we picnicked in the Mauerpark with no shade. Afterwards, I went to a birthday party. It was one of those rare Berlin evenings when it stayed warm well past dark…and then a thunderstorm rolled in. Little did we know,…
Christmas Day walk in the Black Forest.
Hinterzarten, Germany.
Christmas in Germany.
Freiburg, Germany. It’s been quite an old world charmer, this Christmas: we drove through a snowstorm to the Black Forest, prepared a goose for dinner, walked with candles through the dusk along the river Dreisam, sang carols around the piano with accordion accompaniment, and opened…
Early Christmas present.
