Day: December 10, 2018
Holiday Treats
24 Festive Tasks: Door 15 – St. Nicholas’ Day / Sinterklaas, Task 3: If your holiday family traditions should include bowls or plates filled with gingerbread, cookies, oranges / tangerines, chocolate, nuts and the like, share a photo with us! Here’s my assortment — this year’s edition: The traditional Christmas-y stuff: “Christstollen” (Christmas loaf cake), […]
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24 Festive Tasks: Door 7 – Mawlid, Book: If you can find a copy, read Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. Or read any book about a leader of a movement, nation, religion or large group, OR read a book with a green cover OR with a half moon on the cover. Well, let’s just say that none […]
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My BFF and I took a trip down to Frankfurt yesterday, to stock up supplies at our favorite tea and spice store; and while we were there, we also took a look at Frankfurt’s newly-restored (pseudo-)medieval quarter (whose medieval buildings were destroyed in WWII and were now finally restored from scratch, some 70+ years later […]
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