(DE) An apparently insignificant incidence from my childhood is still in my memory today, more than 60 years later, probably because it...

(De) “Do a nice curtsy!”, I was regularly asked as a child when visitors came to our house or when we visited distant relatives or...

(DE) It’s a hot summer’s day in 2019 as a group of elderly ladies are led, laughing and chattering happily, through their old...

(DE) “Life is not a radio request concert” is often said when wishes are denied. But in our lives in the 50s and 60s, the weekly radio...

(DE) In the spring of 1953, seven adults reportedly cheered, “A Deandl!” (That’s Bavarian for “a girl.”) Well, the jubilation among my...

Family hierarchy DE: One day in summer, when I was still a kindergarten child, I decided not to announce my early return from...