The Write Stuff
My Birthday Dinner in Paris It was the year 1992, my retirement and my 65th birthday. Even though my retirement date was June 1st, I was allowed a few days before to leave so we could be in Paris on June 2nd. For the last twenty five years my wish was to have lunch or …
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This Green State of Washington It had been three years since I had come to this country from Germany, and I still had not yet gotten used to the incessant rain. Not really rain, but dark clouds and drizzle. Early summer my Husband Hal suggested we take a drive to warmer and sunnier places. We …
Visiting the Champagne Region of France It was a few years after my Hal, my sister Friedl, her husband Georg and I made this wonderful trip together through the Burgundy region of France, we decided we wanted to make another trip with them, but this time to Epernay, France. We had our Airline tickets and …
Traisa: The Little Pearl in an Oyster called Odenwald (Ode to the Forest) Before WWII started, we used to drive to Traisa, an area adjacent to the Odenwald, a tranquil forest along an auto route called the Bergstrasse
Fun Sunday Afternoons The time was a few years after WWII had ended in Germany. The facilities that housed my own horse were gone along with the horses, the whole cavalry regiment stationed there, in fact my entire City of Darmstadt was destroyed during an Allied raid on 9-11-44. Not much other than housing was …