Memorial Day Service in Berlin

BBQ at the Ronald MacDonald House

On a regular basis, the American Woman´s Club gets together at the Ronald MacDonald House in Wedding to cook dinner for the familes staying there.  To help just a little bit, clubs like ours cook for them. These families spend long, tough days at the bed sides of their children in the Charite Hospital. We not only cook, but we try to spend some time with the families. So often, I leave the house angry with my family-I come home thankful that my son is healthy and happy. 

Lisa and Angelika start the prep work for the bbq while Kandi tells a funny tale!!!

Jill joins us for the first time!!



Thanks again to our GRILL MEISTERS!






Chatting with a family staying at the RMH. There very young baby had just had open heart surgery and was recovering well.

Some pictures of the new addition to the Ronald Mac Donald House

The Evening

For all you interested in coming to Book Club in June, here some reviews of the book we will be reading.  THE EVENING

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
As Ann Lord lies on her deathbed, her daughter delivers a balsam pillow from the attic. At first the ailing woman is confused, but suddenly the scent reminds her of the "wild tumult" she experienced 40 years earlier:
Something stole into her as she walked in the dark, a dream she'd had long ago. The air was so black she was unable to see her arms, it was a warm summer night. Above her she could make out the dark line of the tops of spruce trees and a sky lit with stars. She felt the warm tar through the soles of her shoes. The boy beside her took her hand.
In the porous world between conscious and unconscious the protagonist of Evening revisits the great passions of her life, along with its considerable disappointments. The boy in the dark remains the fixed point--not so much because he is the most important man in her life, but because of the untapped possibilities he represents. Meanwhile, friends and relations come to sit by Ann Lord's side as she veers between clarity and feverish recollection.

In her third novel, Susan Minot takes some new risks--her narrative spanning seven decades of memory and her style ranging from Stegneresque particularity to the exquisite abstraction Virginia Woolf perfected in To the Lighthouse. Equal parts memory and desire, fiction and poetry, Evening is a seductive story made more so by the measured pace of details emerging, one by one, like stars. --Cristina Del Sesto --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
A dying woman's abiding passion for a lover she met in her 20s propels this eloquent third novel by the gifted author of Monkeys and Folly. As 65-year-old cancer patient Ann Grant Lord drifts in and out of a morphine-induced haze, her recollections range back and forth between 1954 and 1994, mulling over the influences that have shaped her life. In particular, she clings to the memory of Harris Arden, the young doctor she met at the wedding of her best friend, Lila Wittenborn, and their brief affair, which he ended to marry another. Resigned to a life without bliss, Ann subsequently sang in cabarets and accumulated husbands, survived motherhood, widowhood and the death of her 12-year-old son but never knew another passion like the one she felt for Harris. With insight and sensitivity, Minot sketches the small daily travails of the deathbed vigils shared by Ann's friends and step-siblings and keeps tension high by skillfully foreshadowing (or back-shadowing) certain of the novel's largest, saddest events, all the while withholding longed-for particulars. The day after the wedding, we eventually learn, the Wittenborns suffered a crushing loss. The juxtaposition of Ann's heartbreak with the more universal tragedy that affected her friend's family accentuates the novel's achingly poignant climax. As the end nears, Ann's drug-induced hallucinations, memories and imagined conversations with Harris all merge into one roiling stream in which Minot's flair for dramatization comes to the fore, rendering her heroine's experience of love at first sight plausible and enviable. Minot has created in Ann a woman whose ardent past allows her to face death while savoring the exhilaration that marked her full and passionate life. Editor, Jordan Pavlin; agent, Georges Borchardt; Random House audio.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Pediatrician in Berlin

Being new in a city, does not mean just a new apt, new job, new schools---it also means finding the right doctors. Today we feature a highly recommended doctor for our precious little ones.

His name is Dr. Folkerts

Located: Teltower Damm 13
14169 Berlin
Berlin / Deutschland

Telefon: 0 30 / 8 11 30 30

If you would like more information on Dr. Folkert, please contact the AWC, I will forward your email to members who still go to this doctor. My son is already 14 going on 15(yikes!) so we do not visit a pediatrician anymore!