Happy Holidays,
Yodelers.
Long time no see.
That is The Frau’s
fault, and since she’s in the U.S., allow her to apologize with a big, fat
American “sorry.”
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| No more bringing the Christmas tree home on a public bus for The Frau. Sad. |
Sorry, sorry, sorry, but it
seems like every time The Frau sits down to write a blog post, she's either distracted by election woes or what she writes turns into an essay
she wants to send to a publication. (Therefore, she cannot post it here as
publications will rarely re-publish posts from personal blogs. Sigh.)
So instead, The Frau
will share a holiday post turned essay, which was published yesterday by the
Washington Post. It’s called Creating
new Christmas traditions, one overly commercialized experience at a time
and it’s about what to do when you no longer have your American childhood
holiday tradition and you no longer have your Swiss holiday tradition (bring your Christmas tree home from Jumbo on a Swiss public bus) and you are
caught in that strange place of non-tradition. Can anyone relate?
In other news, The Frau
is hard at work on her next Swiss-related book, which will be out next May. Part travel guide, part cultural guide, it's a book that aims to make even the most foreign of us who gave up our Swiss C-permits for a little Trumpland maintain a little Swissness (and sanity). Stay
tuned.
In the meantime, you
might enjoy this ultimate Swiss
Gift Guide, which The Frau previously created for any of you who aren’t
quite Swiss enough to have all of your shopping done yet.
Frohe Weihnachten,
mitenand.
