I rarely buy things on Sunday. This has been true my whole life. For religious reasons, I treat Sunday as a day of rest, which means I don’t want anyone else to have to work so that I can go shopping. So, when I moved to Switzerland, it
I rarely buy things on Sunday. This has been true my whole life. For religious reasons, I treat Sunday as a day of rest, which means I don’t want anyone else to have to work so that I can go shopping. So, when I moved to Switzerland, it
I’ll be attending my second funeral of September today–third if you count Queen Elizabeth’s. While Queen Elizabeth’s funeral was certainly much grander (and longer!) than any funeral I’ve attended in person, the dress code (minus the hats) is what I was used to in the US. Men wear
It’s been many years since I have had interns, so I said yes when the opportunity popped up. Meet the summer interns: This is Havana. She’s 14 months old and loves climbing and wet food. She hides whenever one of the supervisors comes by, but you can lure
Switzerland is famously–and infamously–neutral. During WWII they happily made money of the Axis and Allied countries. Plenty of people didn’t like Switzerland taking Nazi gold, but they held fast to their neutrality. This doesn’t mean they trusted their German neighbors during WWII. They were very concerned about the
Because I’m an American who writes about US employment from a US perspective but lives in Switzerland, people often ask me how things are going with Covid here in the land of Cheese and Chocolate. You can see above just how it’s going. And one of those days’
This is Mikey. This is also Mikey. Mikey loves plants and adventure. Or rather, he thinks he loves adventure, but then he gets freaked out. We have an apartment on what Europeans call the first floor, but Americans call the second. But, in height, it’s really more like
There’s a joke that Switzerland is the only country to have a national language that no one speaks: German In reality, Switzerland has four national languages (German, French, Italian and Romansh), and I’m no authority about how pure the other three languages are, but English is probably spoken
It’s day 4640 of quarantine here in the beautiful city of Basel. And, I do mean beautiful. We have had amazing weather and while, technically, we don’t have a stay at home order, I live smack in the middle of the city, so going out means running into
I’ve lived in Switzerland for almost 11 years, and yet there are still new things for me to learn. Like, for instance, I learned that this picture may be illegal: It’s not potentially illegal because it shows people about to go torch city hall, even though it may
Two weeks ago we adopted two adorable kittens: Mikey and Claudia. Now, my primary purpose in writing this blog is to share pictures of the kitties. These are our adorable new kittens. Did you know that kittens poop approximately four times a day? We did not know this