Grossmutti, I still think of you often. You are a part of me. I will always miss you and the time we didn’t have together. But I will be grateful for the time I did have, knowing you. I hope you are free, in a better place, looking in on us, and waiting to see us again. Thank you for having my Mom. She is so tenacious and intelligent. She puts them all to shame. She is truly my best friend. 2020 kicked off a very strange time on the planet. I know you would have many ideas about what’s going on. I love you Grossmutti.

I don't know where I first saw the pictures of my mother as a one year old, but today I was determined to find them and I did and here they are helping to tell the first story of HER LIFE on this site. Please help me celebrate my Mom's (92) birthday today, 1/9/2017.

Wish that you were still with us. Love you Grossmutti. There is much to say as I lay here in bed at 6:45 this morning thinking of you. I have treasured memories playing with you and listening to your entertaining stories when I was a child. I have memories all the way up to our last time together where at 86 and ill, unbeknownst to Mom or myself, you courageously met me in NY so we could go see Richard Dawkins speak. You got to meet him at his book signing and he took the time to talk with you and take pictures with us. It was only so late in your life that I realized how very similar we were and how many specific things we had in common despit distance in location and distance in time. I have a tattoo of your name close to my heart now. A famous German pop star bought it for me in Berlin, the town you gave birth to Mom. Both of my 1/2 Sisters currently live in Berlin. I will always regret the time lost between us, but I will hold onto the beautiful memories. I miss you so much more than I think you would know.