At 9.30, on April 4th, 2019 I boarded a train in my hometown outside of Munich to embark on the 6 hour (3 train transfers) 600 kilometer voyage to the German Western city of Cologne to hear President Obama speak at the World Leadership Summit Conference. It was not...

In my previous post about my challenge with German I mentioned in passing my learning disability and my ADD. However, it played an important enough role in my life that I believe it warrants a post of itself. I really struggled in school from a very early age....

February 23 and 24th 2019 DAG (Democrats Abroad Germany) held their annual meeting in Heidelberg, Germany where among many things they elected their officers and executive/steering committee for the next 2 years. Besides the traditional President, Vice President,...

The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, and now Trump's wall across the southern border across the United States dividing it between the southern and central American countries. Since I live in Germany, I am going to talk about why walls are ineffective from...

Today was an extremely eventful day for my husband and me. My husband Brian had worked as an engineer for Tesla Motors in Silicon Valley for 10 years prior to our move to Germany. In fact, he was one of the first one hundred employees. He sadly had to leave his Model...

Many of my activist friends gave me a rough time and accused me of "giving up" when I decided to move to Germany following Trump’s unfortunate 2016 victory. However, I promised all my friends that as long as I continued to hold a U.S. Passport I would fight against...