Twibber Stories

I’m almost 70 years old – and I go to school again. There I support children to solve their disputes. I work like many others for the German organization Seniorpartner in School which trains people of generation 55+ as voluntary mediators in schools.

As a single mother of two small kids, I went to the main station in Munich in the summer of 2015 when many refugees from Syria arrived. My five-year-old son asked me: „We can’t really help them, right?“

Since my childhood I have loved chicken and dreamt of having some at my home. The industrial livestock farming where millions of laying hens are held under painful conditions always saddened me.

As a child, I saw the movie „Shrek“ and was fascinated by the idea to have a donkey as a companion. When my father recently died, I thought: Now it’s time to fulfill that dream.

When I moved my family to Dubai back in 2013 I knew we were in for a special ride - full of new adventures and discoveries!

Don’t we all appreciate music for a relaxing moment in these difficult coronavirus times? I have just discovered a beautiful new debut album from 23 cloistered nuns in England.

Yesterday I went to a big supermarket I hadn't been to in a while. I wanted to buy some parsley, but couldn't find it, where I had remembered it being before. I asked one of the attendants, but her answer puzzled me: "It's over there, next…

It was my last trip before lockdown: my cousin Chrissy and I went on a California road trip. Just two girls and a big car (that we named Butch)!

My wife and I own in the third generation the hotel-restaurant Leinsweiler Hof in the german state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Due to coronavirus the restaurant currently has to remain closed. That’s why we came up with an idea to beat the lockdown rules:

I’m a singer and have guessed for a while that singing can have a positive effect on people with dementia. My mother suffers from this disease. When I sing with her, apparently it not only improves her mood but also her cognitive abilities. After singing she…