Do you remember the BEST birthday party you ever went to? Maybe it was your own. Or a friend’s sweet 16, a relative’s sassy 60, or something in between? This past weekend I attended the best birthday party ever. On the occasion of a 175th birthday!
Hello from the hamlet of Lutzenberg, Switzerland. We’ve just arrived for the first leg of our “Around the World in 86 days” extravaganza. Having…
Have you ever wondered what might have happened if only you had made a different decision? A few weeks ago, I tumbled headfirst into…
“Man muss die Feste feiern wie sie fallen”. This reminder, one of my mom’s many hand-me-down German expressions, was reverberating in my mind as the…
Red Clogs here, reporting in from Lower Saxony (Hannover, Germany) this Sunday morning. It’s raining lightly, the rowers are gliding (seemingly) effortlessly across the…
“Hey”, I say. “Well…hello…” “Sorry”, I mumble. “I WAS beginning to wonder,” comes the reply. “Everything ok?” “Well….” I venture, “not really. I haven’t…
It all started with a fairly innocuous question. “Hey Dad, what do you want to do for your birthday this year?” His answer -…
Hello Red Clog Readers, I’ve been thinking an awful lot about you – you who share in my adventures both around the world and…
After four visits to Berlin, three over the past seven years and one when the city was famously divided into East and West, I’m…