Category Archives: travel

Testing and failing, most every day

Posted on May 19, 2018 by

By the time we get to Friday we’re all so tired, we’ve just started going out for dinner. Last night I took the high road and just had a salad but when we got home, a couple slices of pizza … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, travel, writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 19 Comments

Dover to Dunkirk, Jan. 31, 2016

Posted on January 29, 2018 by

And just like that, January was over. It meant we could reenter the Schengen by way of France, spend a night, and the next day return to my mom’s house in Germany. The radiator crapped out on the Opel and … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, travel | Tagged , , , , , , , | 22 Comments

Discreet Music | January 16, 2018

Posted on January 16, 2018 by

I made marrow soup for the first time (or released the marrow I guess, into a soup). And I took a hot bath and imagined myself settling into it the same as the chicken carcass, reduced. I flickered in and … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, travel | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

No Christmas in Germany (26 Dezember)

Posted on December 26, 2017 by

Eberhard put school pictures of the girls in a pack of cigarettes and we said goodbye, gave him the last of the turkey in a Ziploc bag. When he leaves, mom always goes to the kitchen sink window where they … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, travel | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

No Christmas in Germany (24 Dezember)

Posted on December 25, 2017 by

24 Dezember, 17 Besigheim, Baden-Württemberg Early morning, happy snoring sounds in bed with Dawn—then mom and I by the banquette watching the birds gather outside by her window. We stayed up late playing Dan Fogelberg songs on mom’s tablet, Dawn … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, travel | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 36 Comments

No Christmas in Germany (23 Dezember)

Posted on December 23, 2017 by

My pants don’t fit, and we can’t get the lyrics right to any of the Steely Dan songs. Cooked onion hangs like phlegm from the lips of Eberhard, the seafood gumbo I made: we were so full from lunch, mom … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, prose, travel | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 20 Comments

No Christmas in Germany (21 Dezember)

Posted on December 21, 2017 by

This month I’ve been featuring journal-style stories from our time visiting my mom in a small German village in Baden-Württemberg.  The series is named after a post from 2014, before we moved here for nine months. We had to leave … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, travel | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments