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My recent post on Observations  has created some sort of email mayhem and I want to clarify that I do not hang out with ugly friends to make myself feel better 🙂 You can also use the comment box below the article to discuss your issues. I just wrote this post very objective to tell you what I have observed. No more, no less. I thought I made myself clear when I wrote the post – apparently not. No matter what, do love yourself! This is the most important thing. The other day I enjoyed another guided meditation with Martina Meissner at SEHES again. It was amazing. I simply sat for almost one hour throughout this guided meditation and it was great. After, we all went to Il Corso to eat Pizza. This is a small little pizza place in Fürth am Berg in Neustadt bei Coburg but they have the most amazing pizzas and pasta. My parents, husband and son went as well. The food was really good, fresh and tasty. It felt good to have all the people from my meditation class and my family around at the same time. Of course I enjoyed that my son did not freak out and my husband is here from Congo to enjoy all the things that are so special to me together! Otherwise, this is what we have been up to this week:

Reading: “Mein Herz in deinem Weiten Land” by Sanna Seven Deers. Two new books that are sitting on my nightstand/kindle are: The Dinner by Herman Koch and Wildflower by Drew Barrymore. 

Watching:  Not too much actually. I haven’t turned on the TV unless my parents watched Tatort on Sundays. However, I did watch Love by Gaspar Noé on Amazon and it was a nice little love story that turned into a sick love/hate relationship. Sad to watch, but probably true for many couples out there. Be advised that they do show some X-rated stuff – well, actually a lot. 

Enjoying: My family and the time I spent here. Also the Christmas Market in Coburg and soon my husband and I have an afternoon at the hot spring Obermaintherme Staffelstein scheduled. Yaaay! I also enjoy that my sister is here with her family. My son plays with their kids and it is awesome to see them interact. So cute! I realize again how important it is to have family and have your family around! I love my family!

Thinking about: The relationship my husband has with our son. They are so awesome together, playing for hours. As a mother, this is something really awesome to observe and enjoy. I am also thinking about next year and what 2016 will bring. I like to start something new. In school I loved to start new folders and make them look nice with post-its and highlighters. A new year always brings a new start and new opportunities. Canada, our house, our projects, Congo, travels and many other changes.

Writing: Tons and tons! Sometimes I feel bad to write every single night for a long time when my husband is here but he even says I should keep up with it. To write daily is not easy, especially if you have a child. My parents are a great help and when I was alone in Connecticut I struggled but managed somehow to be able to write and read to this crazy extend at the moment. I just love it so much and there are so many awesome books out there that I want to read and reviews; and places and thoughts in my head. I could literally write and research  every single day for eight hours straight. This is just a great hobby. Many ask me why I do this. Well, there is just one simple answer. Passion! I love it! I am totally into it and I don’t mind not being able to function without a cup of coffee in the morning after having stayed up until 2am! Life is good. Now. This moment.

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I haven’t done a “How-to” article on a recipe in a while so I thought it is about time again to do so. Today I made my mom’s delicious Spaghetti Bolognese. My mom was at work, my husband played with our son, so I was able to cook in peace without interruptions. I love to cook. It makes me happy and I love it even more if my dish turned out well and everybody enjoys it – obviously. I am not a huge meat-eater but I do love it once in a while. You can follow these recipe instructions easily and quickly; the meal fills you up and is for me some type of comfort food. I would like to share my mom’s basic Bolognese recipe that works, tastes great and is also a great party dish because it can be prepared ahead of time. It tastes even better the next day! There are many ways to experiment with flavors and spices. So let’s dive right in. Not literally. Or maybe – yes,  because it is so yummy! 😉

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“The past is so much safer, because whatever’s in it has already happened. It can’t be changed; so, in a way, there’s nothing to dread.” Margaret Atwood

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As a Canada lover I, of course, researched Canada’s authors. The first name that came up in google search was Margaret Atwood. I have not read anything by her or even heard of her before. What a shame, because this book was awesome! Margaret Atwood, born in 1939, is a Canadian novelist, literary critic and poet as well as an environmental activist. She has won a plethora or awards and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times. You want to read a book by one of Canada’s greatest writers? If you are a fan of dystopian novels, read this review and her book.

This was a book that kept me reading and reading until I finished it. The main characters, Charmaine and Stan,  in The Heart Goes Last are in a horrid situations. They have to live in their car after an economic collapse that created unemployment followed by instability and crime. Charmaine worked at a bar, simply to get by and earn some money  until she found out about the Positron Prison. Selected people could sign up for this project and have been promised a comfortable apartment where they could stay for the rest of their lives. Haven’t had a proper shower in months, clean water or something decent to eat, this sounded great for Charmaine and Stan. This all sounds too good to be true and then there is usually some sort of catch. Any participant is granted assigned residence and employment but they do have to serve every other month at Positron Prison. Keeping the current situation in mind, this all sounds like a good idea and deal until Charmaine fell in love with another resident. Things go insane afterwards.

Overall, this book has romance, science fiction and adventure and is simply a great mix of a bit of everything. I have thought the entire time how this prison project would affect myself mentally if I would be in this situation. To be in a prison one month and then live in this great apartment the next just seems so strange and weird.

Charmaine and Stan’s adventure and love story becomes even more complicated when they try to trust each other again. Can you forgive someone after you found out they cheated on you? Is this possible? Can you live with the person again? And what does it all mean if you are able to forgive? How does your relationship look?

When I fished the book I thought how Atwood is able to write about all these different elements and has the plot all balanced out nicely to make it work, but she is more than capable of doing so. When I read this book, I literally could not put it down. You think that this story Atwood wrote is far-fetched and all this is never going to happen? I believe it is all possible, indeed.

Have you read the book? Do you like it? What did you think about it? 

This is an awesome conversations with Margaret Atwood if you would like to listen and watch.

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