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Bilbao and the Basque Country

BASQUE COUNTRY Before I jump right into How My Latest Vacation Was, I feel the [...]

Inspired Friday: Art and the Importance of Nutrition

A Croatian Farmer’s Market. Maybe it’s all the umbrella’s. Maybe it’s the rows, and rows [...]

The Polished Souvenir

You remember the souvenir I was working on last week for myself. Well, this week [...]

Another Weekend in the Bergs

When you travel a far distance to visit a landmark for its amazing scenery and [...]

Inspired Monday

Since our time left here in Germany is rapidly waning, Phil and I have begun [...]

Inspired Friday, Winter Dreaming

  Laax, Switzerland. An almost-secret ski resort resting in the Swiss Alps. I describe it [...]

Shirt Puzzle

I love puzzles. I could spend all day working on a puzzle. Recently I spent [...]

Back To The Beach…Inspired Friday

In 1987 a movie came along that would inspire me forever. I was only six, but [...]

Camping in Croatia

I’ve noticed that the more I vacation, the more gadgets I pick up to make [...]

Inspired Friday

This is a recent drawing I made of the Hohenschwangau Castle. I took a trip [...]

A Western Museum in an Unlikely Place

My landlord came over our house a while back. He said a friend of his [...]

Inspired Friday

A Flower can not blossom without Sunshine, and Man can not live without Love.   [...]

The German Pick Your Own

In the heart of summer we all want our vegetables as fresh as possible. It’s [...]

Belt Bag

I promised myself I was going to sew something this summer, even if only once, [...]

Make It Big

I just finished another new painting. It’s huge, 48” x 48”, so it’s taken me [...]

The Best Beer in Germany

Says who? Me. Just me, no one special. Phil and I indulged ourselves yesterday in, [...]

Projects. Pie. Pancakes.

When you live in the center of Europe having a house guest for a couple [...]

Weekend in the Bergs

We drove to southern Germany; so far south in Germany that you actully have to [...]

The Institutions of Vienna

The mention of a trip to the capital of the Eastern Empire brings to mind, [...]

Chance.

I think about something very often, but I fear that I may not express it [...]

The Sunday Drive

I took a field trip today with Katharina and Ludwig. We went to the romantic [...]

Treasure Fest

Each time I attend a new festival in Germany I am always under the assumption [...]

The Garden

There are many things about our German neighbors, here at USAG Ansbach, of which we [...]

The Skilled Travelers…a tale of Brussels and Bruges

There is a knowledge to traveling. As helpful as guidebooks and online research can be, [...]