About three months after the lockdowns began, I got an email that our favorite coffee shop in town was reopening its doors. The news came...

"Mommy, why are those people yelling?" asked my 5-year-old as we walked by a rally against climate-change in downtown Munich. "Because...

"O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree, how lovely are thy branches...." And they are lovely. And they smell really great. And they look...