Pass the Parcel This month, the highly acclaimed big, round birthday transpired for the eighth time. My beautiful son made it a very special...
Fraulein Beethoven When Stefan was just nine years old, he lived alone with meA cheerful little chappie, in a world quite trouble-freeWe were living...
Back-to-Back I once lived in an apartment with a small bedroom, converted into a tiny office, with a window overlooking the road and the...
PIZZAS À-GO-GO For many years I lived in a town of approximately 110-thousand inhabitants, and which today, harbours 44 registered pizzerias mostly with large...
Frank: Chapter One This is the true story of Frank, born in 1906, the youngest of three children, and their devout parents, who worshipped...
Switzerland: Then & Now When I first came to Switzerland on a visit in 1969, there was a population of 5.5 million, 89% of...
Christmas Online It’s Christmas again, a time of year when, regardless of religious inclination (or not), we may become a little nostalgic for our...
Can’t Wait for Christmas Christmas 1972, I was staying with my husband at his parents’ home in Switzerland, for the first time. Accustomed as...
Trash the Cash About 6,000 years ago, before money, banks and greed, people bartered by exchanging a chicken for example, for a bucket. However,...