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I have taken all my food posts (past and future) and moved them over to a new food blog. Please visit me here: http://www.diaryofamadhausfrau.com/

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Do we need to be reminded once again that Mother Nature always has the last word? She recently hit the reset button big time on global air traffic with little more than a few hiccups through an Icelandic volcano. Seriously, we humans think we are so smart, important and in control of everything. To an extent, this is true. Just look at all the wonderful things we can do - technology, science,

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When I met my husband (crazy story involving scuba which could be a post on it's own) he had a pair of 20 year old scuba fins he was incredibly fond of. I suspected he would even kiss those fins whan I wasn't looking. That's how much he loved them. Well, they finally wore out completely on one of our numerous dive trips. Can't remember where - Thailand? Burma? Caribbean? Or was it on one of

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I know. I know. These are completely over the top. The idea to make them has been in my head for awhile but until now, I didn't have a proper audience for them until recently. I'll always be a TV producer looking to entertain a target demographic :-) When Dr. B is home on leave from Iraq, he usually works one overnight shift as an emergency doctor on call for our area. He has done this job

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I am not a Spring person.  Sure I enjoy it, but not like the Fall.  I LOVE the Fall.  Especially Fall in NYC.  I know.  I know.  What type of person prefers weather where everything is dying and dropping instead of blooming and budding? Maybe it's the fact that in the Fall Octoberfest in Munich, Halloween, my birthday and Thanksgiving all come rolling in one after another. All fun celebrations

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We had a ragtag family gathering for Easter this year. Usually there is a big egg hunt here on Easter Sunday but no one was around to participate. My twin nieces left for riding camp Saturday. My sister in law, a pediatric nurse, worked the overnight shift at the hospital the night before. So I decided to take on the brunch.  My husband, brother in law, nephew, mother in law, older niece and

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Who doesn't love visiting Italy? In numerous trips there over the years I never had one bad experience. Not one. Whether I am in Rome, Venice, Florence, Tuscany, Apulia, Cortina, South Tyrol, Italian Riviera or Amalfi Coast, as far as I'm concerned, everything is delicious and beautiful in Italy. The sights, the people, the eats, the goods, the spirit, the weather, the language. All of it.

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My entire Germany family are French Fries Monsters. I don't know if it has something to do with living so close to the Belgium border (45 minutes) where they were invented, or because my sister in law raised 5 kids and while they eat mostly locally grown healthy food, french fries once a week sometimes are just easier. I don't know what my husband's excuse is because he is the worst offender.  

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I had to step outside the Matzoh Ball box this time. Ok, I admit I live my life outside the matzoh ball box, especially my Jewish life. The seders I prepare are in no way traditional so please don't hold me to any kind of kosher standard even though my maternal grandparents were both Jewish.  My Grandfather was  a talmud scholar and my Grandmother the daughter of a rabbi.  And me, well, I got

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I heard somewhere that the number one children's toy of all time is a cardboard box. Yep. A cardboard box. In 2005 it was added to the National Toy Hall of Fame. A box.  Simple with endless possibilities. This came to mind when decorating these cookies. We've all bought the pricey decorating toys to play with.  As a matter of fact, I am sure my cookie cutter collection is worth the same as the

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On my daily walks, I see bunnies everywhere bounding through the fields around our house. They reminded me this cupcake recipe from the fabulous Hello Cupcake book have been on my list for awhile. I didn't get to make these adorable Rabbit in the Hole cupcakes last Easter.  Sure am glad I made them today. My nieces and nephew would agree. I had some leftover ingredients from Fines Garten

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I kill everything...green that is. Great with animals. Horrible with plants. That's me. Right now I am desperately trying to keep my husband's ficus and palm trees alive while he is in Iraq. I don't know where I got this brown thumb. My mother back in the States and everyone I live with here in the German countryside are all fantastic with plants and gardening. My mother in law, Fine is no

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Shamrock and Irish Spring Soap Bailey's Irish Caramel Cream Cookies I don't celebrate St. Patrick's Day. I used to wear green to work when I lived in New York City in solidarity with my Irish friends. That was the extent of it. Never went to an Irish pub. Never drank green beer. And I permanently boycotted the St. Patrick's Day Parade in NYC because they wouldn't let gay people march in it.

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I love orange. I love the color. I love the taste. I even have an orange coffee machine. It looks like a little orange spaceship, which definitely would be the color of mine if I had a spaceship. We don't use this coffee machine nearly enough, mostly using a regular automatic drip coffee maker. My little orange spaceship/java generator is quite the TV star. I cheered it on every time I

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Today is the 100th anniversary of Russian Ballerina Anna Pavlova's debut in America at NYC's Met. I am thinking of her today and my grandmother who saw her perform. I was obsessed with Pavlova when I was a young ballerina and would make her tell me the story over and over again of seeing this legendary artist dance. My Grandmother was the one who walked me several times a week to the dance

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For various reasons this year we blew off a dive trip to Ko Chang, Thailand and then the possibility of a trip to Paris for Valentine's Day. We stayed home and celebrated Karneval. Every year I moan and groan when I hear the first Karneval cry of ALAAF! However, once in costume and having downed a few glasses of sekt, I am singing and dancing along like the rest of the natives. Part of the fun

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Pink heart shaped cupcakes and purple (meringue) Hearts... because, after all, love is a battlefield... Germans, in general, do not observe Valentine's Day. However, over the last few years I have noticed more items in the stores here targeted towards consumers to celebrate Valentine's Day. I think it's slowly catching on. Since I am a one woman band for all things American here and the

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HMMM...What to give to a most brilliant graphic designer/creative director, a woman who has of one of the best creative minds I have ever worked with? Since I am home with hubby and not in Munich to celebrate with her, I still wanted to show my appreciation of our friendship and creative collaboration by making something fun and delicious to mark her (ahem) 35th birthday and shipping it to her

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RETRO GERMAN BAKING Part 3 Traffic Light Cookies I saw a Sign and I shoulda just turned the page... As I mentioned on my last post, the decorating aspect of these cookies was hell. Me! Me who cuts, colors, paints, pipes and adheres things to cookies with tweezers for hours. This recipe first got my attention because of the four ingredients total it takes to make them.

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RETRO GERMAN BAKING Part 2 Raisin Hearts Many of this book's recipes feature a general version of cakes, souffles, cookies, bread, etc. then it illustrates different variations by adding different ingredients. Ah, typical German efficiency! When flipping through the baking sections, I was intrigued by this cookie dough recipe because it has only four ingredients -

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RETRO GERMAN BAKING Part 1 I have several vintage German cookbooks collected from thrift stores, all of them at least 20 years old. I love looking at the retro pictures and graphics Some of the pictures are just fabulously kitchy: Some I find hilarious. How undignified for these poor fish... A lot of the graphics manage to be tacky and cute at the same time. These

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Vienna! Dr. B and I had a wonderful New Year's trip to Vienna. He has close friends there from back in the days when he worked in Egypt as a dive instructor/guide. Denis, Geli and Eva gave us the warmest welcome possible and were always there with itinerary tips and advice. It was a wonderful way to ring in the new year. We decided to book this trip only a few months ago so EVERY hotel was

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Happy New Year!Husband and I are off to Vienna for three days. We will celebrate New Years Eve with friends and we have tickets to The Nutcracker at the Vienna Opera. So excited. Made these to bring with. Happy New Year everyone. Let's hope 2010 brings more peace and less poverty worldwide.

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Holiday Cookies I am a cookie baking freak. Specifically, making cookies with shapes and colors. I can spend hours decorating them. It's creative therapy for me. This year, I planned to break out and make other cookies other than decorated gingerbread and sugar cookies. Didn't happen. Making these cookies look colorful pretty much sucked all my cooking time so I didn't get to the others on

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Christmas Market Roundup Part 8 - Munich, Germany There is so much I could write about this wonderful city. München is the city of my heart. It's where I made my dream of living in Europe come true. It's where my husband and I fell in love. It's where I met lifelong friends. I spent happy years living and working here, loving my job and my colleagues. I have never felt so at home in a city

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Christmas Market Roundup Part 7 - Colmar, France The medieval town of Colmar is almost a 40 minute train ride from Strasbourg. Although it's much smaller, it boast five picturesque Christmas Markets. When I was reading up on the history of the city, I read that Charles the Fat held a diet there in 884. Whaaa? After a bit of digging, I found out that the other meaning of diet is a political

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Christmas Market Round up Part 6 - Strasbourg, France I hopped the train in Basel for the hour plus ride to Strasbourg. This is a city I have wanted to visit since I moved to Europe years ago. I definitely picked the right time as Strasbourg is the self proclaimed Capital of Christmas in France and the city was twinkling with lights and decorations. There are several Christmas Markets

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Christmas Market Roundup Part 5 Freiburg, Germany Freiburg is a beautiful university city straddling the Dreisam river is only 40 minutes from Basel by train which explains it's good weather. Located on the edge of the Black Forest, Freiburg is also known for it's vineyards. In walking from the train station, I passed the beautiful columbi hotel, bordered by a park..Even though it look so

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Christmas Market Roundup Part 4 Basel, Switzerland Protected by the city's symbol of a dragon or basilisk, Basel has the warmest climate in Switzerland as well as a unique location in Europe bordering both France and Germany. My basilisk room key: Basel boasts the largest and most traditional Christmas market in Switzerland. It also has the longest Christmas street in Europe. A lovely

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Christmas Market Roundup Part 3 Cologne I lived in Cologne for a few years. At first, part time, as I was commuting between Munich and Cologne for work. Then Dr. B and I ended up living there. Full confession, I didn't like living in Cologne much. Don't get me wrong, it's a very friendly city and the gayest in Germany but I missed my beloved Munich too much. There are a lot of great things

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Christmas Market Round Up Part 2 - Düsseldorf Elegant Dusseldorf is known as the fashion capital of Germany. The shopping here is outstanding, especially along the beautiful famous Königsalle. Fun fact: Dusseldorf has the third largest Japanese expatriate population in Europe. When walking from the main train station to the markets you pass through what feels like "Little Japan". Lots of

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Christmas Market Roundup Part 1 Here in Europe the countdown to Christmas is on. The USA has it's mall stampedes and in Europe, especially in Germany we have Christmas market mania. Over the next weeks, I will visit several and present my impressions. First up: The Aachener Weihnachtsmarkt in Aachen, Germany. Aachen is a town known for it's natural springs and international horse show (

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World AIDS Day Ribbon Angels When I was gathering my supplies, I pulled out glitter sugar, pearls, coconut and silver dragees because I intended to make these cookies look beautiful, fluffy, sparkly and shiny. As I painted them, I got inspired to go a bit punk, a bit...well...Keith Haring which I see now is so much more appropriate. I used an ordinary sugar cookie dough recipe, cut out the

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Damn You Facebook!!!! I haven't posted in over year... The date corresponds almost to when I activated my Facebook account....can't blame it really on FB... hmmmm...but I can see how it can make lazy bloggers like me even lazier. It is so much easier to go to FB and upload those pix and short descriptions of my trips this past year to Egypt, Istanbul, Prague, Budapest, Marrakesh, NYC,

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VALKENBURGYesterday I took a day trip over the Dutch border to this fascinating town. Over 1,000 years old, this is a lovely place to spend a day. The castle ruins are amazing. Destroyed and rebuilt several times over the last 1,000 years, whoever occupied the castle controlled commerce in Germany, Holland and Belgium. The ruins are well maintained with signs showing the original purpose and

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Can't remember the last time I danced with a moose...Aachen Germany

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Rosalie is a dwarf goat my sister in law adopted a few months ago. this morning when she went to feed the the chickens - there was a huge Easter surprise waiting for her.... No one had a clue Rosalie was pregnant when she got her...not even the Veterinarian who shaved her hooves last week. everyone thought she was putting on weight because she was eating the chicken feed. Welcome to the world

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Skiing in Sheffau, Austria

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Karneval - Once again it was great fun celebrating in Aaachen.. Then it was onto Munich for Fsching...

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MALDIVES Jan '08 Husbandfish and I had a great trip to the Maldives. It was my first time and his fourth. He got paid in coconuts there once for saving someone’s life, more on that later. We stayed 10 days at Olhuveli, a posh resort. What husbandfish warned me about previously regarding the Maldives turned out to be true. If the resort is large with lots of services -the diving is so so. The

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This is gonna be one LOoooog, hopefully not too boring post because I have horribly neglected my blog since Thanksgiving which was spent at the Kaplans in Milford PA. Dr. B was the special guest of the weekend enjoying a 10 day break. I can't thank my friends enough for their generosity and hospitality. A shout out to Joy and Fred and Margot and Mike. A heartfelt hanks for including us in your

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EINHORN ILER Early Thanksgiving dinner.

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Birthday Fun!What a great birthday treat to see Margaret Cho in her review Sensuous Woman. Fabulous! I highly recommend it.

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NYC - Greenwich Village ParadeWendy, Alan and I had a great time at Richard's party. He has an apartment on the second floor above 6th ave with a large balcony overlooking the parade. Great people and the mood was that special energy that comes only with this event....

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KONA, HAWAIIALOHA!!!Well, it's official..Mr. & Mrs. Spiller have started their married life together. It was a beautiful wedding weekend wonderfully planned by Ms. Perry. Fabulous friends and family. We all wish the happy couple all the joy in the world. Congratulations!!!

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TEMECULA, CALIFORNIAI arrived in LA last week and drove to Temecula to visit friends on their avocado farm for two days - I stayed five. Once I got there, the fires came closer to their area and we were on evacuation watch. Luckily, I had rented an SUV and was able to help in case we had to leave all together. These are pictures of the fires from the house and from the highway driving to LA

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ERIN'S HEN PARTY/THE LAST SUPPERThe Munich Girls threw our fabulous songstress a wonderful Bachelorette party including songs, poems, a lovely memory book and what hen party would be complete without a few risque gifts?Alas, the owner and staff at The Last Supper behaved SO NOT LIKE JESUS (to quote Ms. VH) towards us, even though we were ladylike and unusually low key. We had to eventually take

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AUF GEHT'S ZUR WEIS'NOKTOBERFEST 2007! This is David...by far the most interesting person I ever met at the Weis'n. He's 32, plays quad rugby on an international team, just got married 6 months ago is a lovely person with a great sense of humor and because he is Munich born and bred, he knew the words to EVERY Oktoberfest song the band played. We met in the Augustiner tent. David, it was great

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MAGICAL MILFORD MOMENT...Minutes after Wendy filled the bird feeders..look what happened...

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MILFORD, PALot's of fun at Arnold & Fabio's annual pool party. Great people, great food, great time.

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BONN, GermanyAMAZING Exhibit!http://www.kah-bonn.de/index_e.htm

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Thanks Hilde Montgomery for all the great underwater photos!!!!

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"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a Parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders,. This is easy. All you have to do

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Life in the Inferno of Baghdad - WPBy Terry McCarthySunday, June 3, 2007; Page B01BAGHDADAbu Taha, a portly, smiling man with two young children, lives a couple of blocks from our house in Baghdad. I arrived here to cover the war for ABC News last July, and one of the few pleasures I have found is sitting with him on his flat roof, where he keeps pigeons in a series of coops. In the evening, as

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SALEM, MASSACHUSETTSMEMORIAL DAY WEEKENDLyricsWHICH WITCH IS WHICH?

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MOTHERS' DAYWassenberg GermanyHome with my family and a visit with my husband. We had a great day yesterday celebrating at my sister-in-law's with their childrens, animals, etc. This is LUCY:Lucy is one of a pair of sheep my sister in law kept in a pen across the street from their house. The other sheep recently died of old age and Lucy has moved over to the yard. She is lonely and keeps

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This past Sunday my cousins and I organized a family reunion brunch in the West Village, NYC. Everyone who RSVP'd came - over 40 in total representing 4 different generations.Our Grandparents were over 17 siblings total so there are A LOT of us. We all had a great time getting to know one another and looking forward to another get together soon, hoping even more of us will join. Here's to you

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"The First casualty when war comes is truth."-Senator Hiram Johnson 1917

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Wow! what a gorgeous weekend in Milford, PA. Wendy, Alan and I spent some time at the Llama farm across the street from their house. Thanks Richard! And thanks Alan for the incredible photos. Llamas are gentle, beautiful creatures. We felt only peaceful energy when they surrounded us. Llama facts:1)To get to know them - let them sniff your hair.2)They hum to communicate.3)They don't spit any

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Today is my handsome,brilliant, sexy husband's 47th birthday...Happy Birthday DARLING!!! Many Happy returns..I love you!!! Big kisses all the way to Iraq!This past weekend I went with friends to Old Bethpage Village on Long Island for the annual Rabbit Breeders Show. This is me with an English angora rabbit...The highlights for me were this adorable breed called "Lionheads"And this breed of

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Dr. B was here visting in NYC. He was only here for a week and there was so many people to see and things to do and get done. We did our nitrox course (A big Thanks to our great teacher!) He wanted to visit the graves of Jazz greats Miles Davis and Duke Ellington so we trapsed up to the Bronx to Woodlawn Cemetary: We made a long overdue visit to see a friend's new baby (thanks Barbara & Aari!)

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Here are the highlights since I last posted..Skiing with my friend WendyA great SCISSOR SISTERS concert but a bad pix...Spending time with my fabulous cousin LIZ who is sideways..Having dinner with my friend Lorraine and her bird PEG..and... Lyrics LyricsKelly at Bank - what a sweetheart. She was so gracious to all us fans.

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MUNICH Fasching – In the south of Germany Karneval is celebrated as Fasching. On Fat Tuesday, I went with Margaux and her friend Nicola (the cowgirl in the pix) to the Viktualienmarkt. It was very crazy and we met a lot of strange characters. The best part was the weather - Gorgeous, warm and clear skies – so clear that you could see the alps if you climbed to the top of the steeple at St.

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AACHEN, GERMANY Alaaf and Pimp My Doc. Yesterday was first of a four day Karneval celebration here in Germany. Dr. B and I met the same friends he always parties with. Sandra and the girls - thanks for a great time! The entire place goes crazy at Karneval. I produced our costumes this year. I was a pimp and Dr. B was my ho. I had to put him on sale - 5 Euro for 10 Minutes. He definitely

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MUNICH AIRPORT On my way home to my house. what a wonderful time with the girls. I am always awed by my friend Erin Perry's vocal talent, but watching her perform on Friday evening took my admiration to a whole new level. Erin performed a one woman show called Kosmic Blues where she, for lack of a better word, "channels" Janis Joplin. She (and her band of extremely talented musicians)

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MUNICH - Back again in this city I love most and visit frequently. I lived here for 5 years and feel connected to this city in ways I cannot describe. There's something about this beautiful, graceful city that is so special to me, aside from it's where my husband and I reconnected and fell in love, moved in together and got engaged after meeting in Costa Rica. Even though we were both living

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"Where's Your Blog?" I have heard it too many times from my friends...now I hope it (i) do not disappoint.ok, Blast off!For those of you who never know where I am in the world, I am now in NYC staying with wonderful friends who sort of adopted me when my husband went to Iraq. We met years ago when we worked together helping build an AIDS support service to keep people with AIDS and their

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