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• CHRISTMAS EVE

  By Bill Pearse on December 24, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Originally posted on Lonely Keyboards:
  It’s early on Christmas Eve, just after seven. Still and overcast outside; mild but it will warm up later. Not too much though, the high thirties days are promised for later in the week. This…

• No Christmas in Germany (23 Dezember)

  By Bill Pearse on December 23, 2017 • ( 20 )

  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… Read More ›

• No Christmas in Germany (21 Dezember)

  By Bill Pearse on December 21, 2017 • ( 13 )

  

  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… Read More ›

• 21 Dezember (Song for Solstice)

  By Bill Pearse on December 21, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  21 Dezember 17, Donnerstag “For the shortest day” Some days fall through the cracks — most days aren’t worth saving, but it’s OK there isn’t much room.

• No Christmas in Germany (20 Dezember)

  By Bill Pearse on December 20, 2017 • ( 17 )

  

  Chocolates with brandy inside, cheese, special cakes from Saxony. Taking pictures of the cats before they took down the tree. The tree, the one mom got the year John was sick and couldn’t come down for Christmas, so she set… Read More ›

• No Christmas in Germany (18 Dezember)

  By Bill Pearse on December 19, 2017 • ( 26 )

  

  We went back to Colmar, the small French town with the killer Christmas markets, but it wasn’t the same trying to recreate our first visit, when it was just me and Dawn. But if you’re a 10-year-old, on the cusp… Read More ›

• No Christmas in Germany (16 Dezember)

  By Bill Pearse on December 16, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  Join me this month for stories of our time here in a small German village where we’re visiting with my mom. I’m experimenting with straight journal-style blogging as a ‘post-a-day’ challenge. Thanks for reading, Bill  December 16, 2017 Besigheim, Germany… Read More ›

• No Christmas in Germany (15 Décembre)

  By Bill Pearse on December 15, 2017 • ( 12 )

  

  December 15, 2017 Colmar, France We tipped big, smiled and said please a lot our short time here in Colmar. A family of Spanish tourists at the café were practicing English with their two little boys and before we left… Read More ›

• No Christmas in Germany (14 Décembre)

  By Bill Pearse on December 15, 2017 • ( 15 )

  

  December 14, 2017 Colmar, France In the morning Dawn had a headache and I went out looking for aspirin and bottled water or coffee, but found none (it was before 8 and only the Tabacs were open, all they had… Read More ›

• Life Before Fabric Softener (a memoir) | 2

  By Bill Pearse on December 14, 2017 • ( 10 )

  The second entry in my to-be written memoir (v.3)—that starts 20 years ago as I was making plans to move to the south of France, looking after my parents’ house in Pennsylvania. First chapter is here. December, 1997 New Tripoli,… Read More ›

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