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changing colors for fall

October 6, 2010

I have good reasons for not blogging lately. I have (all of a sudden) a real social life. I have my kids that demand more and more of me. I have a husband that likes hot meals and clean underwear. I have a cat that woke me up last night for some serious petting because [...]

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English

June 7, 2010

This is a post for all the times I didn’t post about this subject. I let it fall away. It was hateful. It was silly. It was so not me. However, I will post it now. Why do so many English people in Switzerland (and outside Switzerland) carry on as if Americans do not speak [...]

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Hope beyond hope

November 4, 2008

I will be glued to CNN International later today watching the elections. The time difference between Switzerland and the States will have me up most of the night. There is no way I can sleep. I have hope but I know nothing is sure. The only thing about this election that is sure is [...]

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Remembering

September 11, 2008

Photo taken in Centerville, Ohio. I have hung my flag out in remembrance of 9/11. Today, I am a little emotional in regard to my country. Maybe, I am even a little protective. It makes it harder for me to be strong when a man asks me for a second time why I don’t speak [...]

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Fourth of July chez nous

July 4, 2008

Click to view larger. The kids loved our flower inspired potato salad. Click to view larger. I hung our American flag up as soon as I got up this morning. Afterwards, the children and I placed our hands over our hearts and said the pledge of allegiance. Click to view larger. I love a flag [...]

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I got my Swiss drivers license!!!

May 19, 2008

Since Ohio only states the date that you renew your drivers license and not the date that you first got a drivers license, I had to prove to the Swiss that I have been driving longer than three years. If I hadn’t I would have been considered a new driver which required me to take [...]

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Differences in American and British English

April 10, 2008

Spelling differences between American and British English

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Exchanging my Ohio drivers license for a Swiss drivers license

March 3, 2008

I got my Swiss drivers license in the mail today. One problem. It is good only until June of next year. I am required to take 16 hours of instruction before I can get a permanent Swiss license with no expiration. (edit: read here to see how I fixed this issue and now have a [...]

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Adjustment period

February 7, 2008

My new slippers I found for 5 Swiss francs! I have found that I, personally, have an adjustment period as an expat. It took about 10 months for me to start feeling at home in France and it has taken me about 8 months to adjust to life in Switzerland. Switzerland has slowly become my [...]

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Chris Jordan photography

September 19, 2007

Last night I watched an Arte program, États-Unis, la richesse à crédit. The subtitle “Le pays le plus riche de la planète est aussi le plus endetté.” (The richest country in the world is, also, in the greatest debt.) No surprise for me. Not after working in American banking for seven years. One of my [...]

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Remembering 9/11

September 11, 2007

I still can’t go through a September the 11th without thinking about ‘that day‘. When I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 in Strasbourg I couldn’t stop the tears from welling up in my eyes and spilling down my face. I know others saw me crying as I tried desperately to stiffel the sounds. It took me a [...]

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Beach front view

August 15, 2007

Daytona Beach, Florida (taken summer 2006) I have a beach front view on my life. The past year has been incredibly hard. I made it. Yet, I sit here wondering where my life will take me next. My life has always been like that. I never knew where I would be from one year to [...]

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Blogging headaches

August 15, 2007

I was tired last night when I decided to delete and reinstall my WordPress blog. I didn’t think it would be an issue. I wrote that I had not updated my blog entries just before I deleted my blog. However, I did backup the files just before I deleted the blog (see how tired I was). [...]

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Deleted WordPress and reinstalled

August 14, 2007

WordPress was running slow. So, I read somewhere to delete and reinstall. I have done it on my other WordPress blog with no problems. Not this time. When I tried to reinstall WordPress I got errors. Lucky for me I had a backup using the wordpress backup plugin. Not so lucky…I forgot to backup before [...]

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Monday equals laundry

July 23, 2007

Heaps and heaps of it. To be exact a weeks worth of laundry with three accident prone (I admit it is from my genes) kids. I am looking at eight loads of fun. In Switzerland, apartment dwellers must abide by a laundry schedule. Each tenent in my building has half a day one day a [...]

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