If you recall my Christmas torture list from the other day, there is one item that I purposely did not include, and that is the
Category: Social Condition
On the Third Day of Xmas: Children are not goats (2020 version)
I originally published an earlier version of this article back in 2016, before moving to Berlin had even surfaced in the horizon. Four years later,
On the Second Day of Xmas: The Strudel Principle
Today being the third Sunday of Advent, in the Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran tradition it is Gaudete Sunday, also referred to a Shepherd’s Sunday or
On The First Day of Xmas: A Wax Heart
December 12th just crept up on me and caught me unawares. It’s been THAT kind of a week, month, year… and I realised much to
Those Despicable Year-End Letters (2020 version)
Here I go again. If you have been following the FrogBlog for a few years, you will know that this topic inevitably pops up, because
Christmas Traditions we torture ourselves with… why?
I’ve been wondering about a whole list of things I grew up with or ended up adding the family traditions simply because “it’s what we
