Weisbaden, Hildegard von Bingen, und Kloster Eberbach

Weisbaden, Hildegard von Bingen, und Kloster Eberbach

This was not with trains, this was with a rented car and a SatNav (thank you British shorthand for a new word for a Tom-Tom). We went to Weisbaden, “the Nice of Germany” according to our guidebook, the Hildegard of Bingen’s abbey, and a beautiful Gothic monastery – Eberbach. Weisbaden feels like Nice to me [...]

Kolner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) is breath-taking

Kolner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) is breath-taking

Seriously, it is amazing amazing. Built at the height of Gothic gorgeousness by people without machines, electricity, computers, with an expected life-span of 40 (as long as the plague didn’t get them). We also took the fast train from Frankfurt and we were going 250 km/hour – which we know because the entire train was [...]

Halumping around Hesse (und medical update from Deutschland)

Halumping around Hesse (und medical update from Deutschland)

Those of you who read my book know the word boring is anathema to me. Instead I will simply say I have found myself more and more drawn to exploring outside of my glorious village of Bad Salzhausen. This region of Germany is known as Hesse and it is served by a perfect train system [...]

A wheatgrass machine sounds like a cow (und scan update, und A Course in Miracles…)

A wheatgrass machine sounds like a cow (und scan update, und A Course in Miracles…)

I know this sounds naive, but I have never stood next to a cow in the silence of a quiet field and listened to it tear up grass and chew. My first thought was, “that sounds like a wheatgrass machine,” my second thought was, “maybe we should give nature first dibs on sounds – a [...]

A walk around the Bad Salzhausen sculpture park (und update)

A walk around the Bad Salzhausen sculpture park (und update)

So yesterday I started cycle 3 of hopefully 8 cycles (8 cycles of what, you ask? read all about it here!) – a full body hyperthermia where I SWEAT like a big sweating sweaty sweat person (according to the nurse I was “schwimmen en de table”, love it!). Today I walked my husband up to [...]

Thank you Detroit News Herald!

Thank you Detroit News Herald!

Check out this great article from Amy Bell – this amazing world of technology means that I was able to talk to her in Germany last week via my computer. Thank you Amy! ANN ARBOR: Former resident featured on “The Doctors” for her ‘mind over approach’ to Hodgkins Lymphoma Today about to head in for [...]