Where’s Your Lulu’s?

Seems like the last thing for me to sell is my annual membership at the local fitness club and it will be one of the first things I find in California. Nothing beats putting the kids in a (fun) daycare for a few hours while Mommy pumps some iron and then relaxes in the Cafe [...]

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Horsepower & Stilettos

I’ve been here for nearly a year and today I saw, for the first time ever, a female motorcycle rider.  So she does exist in Europe! And because I would never dream of trying to ride a bike on these foreign roads (yes, it’s the same side of the street but seriously, everything else is [...]

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Drink Up: The Top Five Swiss Beverages

They may eat well, but the Swiss have plenty of guilty pleasures in liquid form.

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The Heart of Nowhere

What does a little town of 3,500 at the southern tip of Switzerland have to offer? Well….uh…not much, really.

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Welcome to Europe, bro.

You’re waiting for your tram.  Two teenage boys sit slouched on the bench beside you, hands crammed into the knee-height pockets of their baggy, ripped jeans.  Three girls pass in front of them and you watch as they take a visual inventory of all their assets, commenting to each other as the girls leave ear [...]

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Frohe Wiehnachten!

Snowflakes the size of quarters are wistfully cascading to the ground outside my window.  It’s just the right amount of snow where the trees sparkle with white romance but the sidewalks are clear and dry. It is now officially Christmas. And quite literally, it is Christmas today.  For this is the day that a local [...]

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Will the Real Mom Please Stand Up?

The other day I attended a Swiss School information night for expat parents. There are many options for schooling here and Switzerland is known to have some of the finest International (i.e. English-speaking) schools in the world.  But unless you’re willing to fork out up to CHF 30,000 per child every year, the public system [...]

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Playground Pick-Up

Do You have a BandAid? I Just Scraped My Knee Falling For You.

Many of us left the single scene years ago but as a parent of young children, the pick-up lines all come back into play.

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Things I Won’t Miss

It’s toes #11-20 here. As the day to leave North America approaches, I can’t help but think of all the things I will sincerely miss, and not miss, here in Canada. To avoid any sharp flying objects from the direction of my mother (…let’s not talk about that…), I’ll start off by stating the obvious: [...]

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