TRASH-LESS SOCIETY….
Prior to arriving in DE I had a system for rubbish in my car. Upon arrival at my destination, I would remove any garbage that had accumulated during the errand and deposit at a receptacle where I exited my vehicle (I eschew trash bags in vehicles unless the road...
WHEN IN ROME, DON’T DO AS THE…
Ahh…the weekly girl scout and cub scout meeting…probably the moment on post where I most feel like I’m back living in the United States. I have no idea how I don’t see any of the 10,000 American minivans I see on post, when I’m driving...
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Towards the end of my college days I spent a summer working the Alpine Slide at the Stowe Mountain Resort. It had all the makings of a cheesy 1980s movie. Outdoors, summer job, young people, drinking, parties, new people coming and going each week or day...
WHEN IN ROME
The Autobahn whispers to you, ‘drive me’. The Toyota Sienna whispers back, ‘okay, but not too fast’. So one of the perks of being a United States military family who has a permanent change of station from the United States to Deutschland is...WHERE GOOD BAKING STARTS
28 OCTOBER 2019 Okay. A lot going on in this photograph. The original purpose was to capture my method for softening butter for baking. I place it in a bowl and then lay the bowl on the one floor in our home with radiant heat. Actually works pretty...CHILDREN’S TOYS
Until the end of my days our Pinehurst home will haunt me. It was everything. It was new, it had custom detail like crown molding, it had space for everyone, it had luxury well beyond what one needs or expects from a home. And one of those things was the...
MUNICH FLUGHAFEN – Flying in Style
Talk about history repeating itself. I am grateful for the childhood my mother and father provided. It is that childhood of cartrips, trans-Pacific flights, planned and spontaneous trip taking that fostered a curiosity I have never been able to cure. I...
HALLOWEEN DEUTSCHE STYLE
Talk to one German neighbor and they tell you, ‘of course we celebrate Halloween’. Talk to the next German neighbor and they tell you they do not celebrate the ‘American’ holiday. Who knows. What I do know is our Deutsche neighbors enjoyed the...
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Scot lives with his wife Jules & their three children Hunter, Eva, & Acadia in the Cville area of Virginia.