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Dachau KZ
Sunday, Tristan and I visited an exceptionally sacred place: Dachau KZ (Konzentrationslager). It was a clear, sunny day. Crisp air, and bitingly cold as the wind blew. The chill seemed fitting; the sun seemed misplaced. When I learned that it wouldn’t be until Tristan was in middle or high school before the atrocities of the…
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A Pandemic & A Refugee Crisis
In January 2022, it will be five years since I became licensed as a registered nurse and February 2022 since I put that license to use and began working labor and delivery at the same hospital that I’d delivered Tristan. Years before I graduated nursing school, I’d snagged a job as a patient care tech…
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Montmartre, Paris
The kids would call this a “latergram,” but I’m just getting around to posting about my second visit to Paris. What was originally intended to be a three night stay in Mallorca, Spain (resort, plane, rental car all booked) turned into a last minute cancellation due to COVID numbers, and changed to maybe Italy, then…
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Colmar, France
I’ve been living in Deutschland for almost 7 months now. Never have I been this far from home for this long. And while I miss my people back in the States, I haven’t felt the first tugging of homesickness. My heart and soul belongs in Europe. From the dragon scale roof tiles, to the random…
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Little Things: Part Three
This edition of “Little Things” is mixture of both positives and… less positives. Don’t misunderstand – I love living here (you know, in the whole four months that we’ve been here), but there are some things that I miss from home – as well as absolutely baffle me about Germany. While there are things that…
an (american) labor nurse in deutschland 