Joy Blog
“There was a young married couple up on the mountain last week and they chased sheep with their dog!” That’s what my parents heard when they went up to our mountain cabin in summer 1993.
Have you had gossip turning a big round in...
Do you ever indulge in happy memories, when suddenly the smell is in the air again, you can hear the sounds, maybe even sense the breeze or the temperature on your skin and you feel really vivid reliving these wonderful moments?
This is exactly what...
The gentleman who wanted to kick Newton out and change the mural on our world famous very traditional university facade was my roommate and we both studied food engineering together. Before I moved into that amazing shared apartment I was staying...
Two 14 year old girls hiking for 3 days - no phone.
It was 1992 when my bestie and I had the idea to walk from Yverdon to Lausanne, sleep in a tent, cook over the fire and have the best adventure ever. So we did it.
When I imagine my daughter Mika...
„Eleshia, are you in for a photoshoot? With Bry, the brilliant and most wonderful photographer who came to the mountaincabin for a week to shoot me there!? There are two slots free in a gooorgeous house at the South coast of England!! Can I...
5 years ago a TV-team from Fuji Television Japan came to Ken's Restaurant. They planned a show about "The most famous Japanese people in Switzerland".
Ken scored 3rd famous after Kei Nishikori the tennis player and Mr. Takahashi who runs a Japanese...
I‘m made in America : ) actually made in Iowa City. My mother told my father in 1975 after they got married that she wanted to go to Iowa city sometime because her beloved Swiss Godfather was living there. My father had the biggest grin on his...
Riding on the camel was our motivation when we had to go hiking in the valley of our mountain cabin as kids.
I hated hiking so much ! Camels got me going though. And the white-red-white striped marks of the Swiss hiking trails. Finding the next sign...
All of my life I wanted to become a primary school teacher. I remember playing school with my mother and my one year old sister when I was four and I told my mom that I’ll write the number ONE on her “reports” instead of the...
How are you in this summer of 2023?
Have you been at a music festival in your life? Are you a fan? No thank you I don’t like so many people at one place? Maybe you would fall in love with Uhuru Festival like I did in 2016. Mika was five and I...
The following story is in my book “The Joy Compass”. I would love to give it to you as a present - just because you are amazing and could need a great read for summer? You can even listen to my BEST English on the audio book : ). If you...
It was in the underpass of Chur main station, the mountain district of Switzerland, where I approached two young Japanese ladies who were looking at their map.
“Doko e ikimasu ka?” Where are you going?
Ken always laughs at me for wanting to...
