Bea BallBayreuth and WagnerI love opera! The music, the stories, the drama! Opera is life on steroids, and I’m always in awe when I watch a live opera, or listen to…Oct 5, 2020Oct 5, 2020
Bea BallMEISSEN — the royal porcelainWhen Grandma talked of important people, in her small and tightly-knit German community, in Southern Brazil, she would describe them as…Oct 3, 2020Oct 3, 2020
Bea BallLeipzig, Germany — hidden no moreIn ‘Faust’, Goethe’s masterpiece, one of the characters in the novel calls Leipzig ‘little Paris,’ for its beauty and love of arts. Once…Sep 30, 2020Sep 30, 2020
Bea BallBerlin and the WallArriving in Berlin for the first time felt like going back home. That’s because my grandparents were German immigrants, and the language I…Sep 18, 2020Sep 18, 2020
Bea BallI LOVE NEW YORK!I lived in New York for 31 years. I’m no longer there, but New York felt like home from day one, when from the window of my plane I saw…Sep 11, 2020Sep 11, 2020
Bea BallTop 10 places to visit in Brittany after COVID-19As of September, 2020, Americans are still not allowed to travel to Europe, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Travel restrictions might be…Sep 7, 2020Sep 7, 2020
Bea BallHitler slept there. So did Michael Jackson, Angelina Jolie — and IGoing to Berlin in August of 2012 felt a bit like going home, even if it was my first time in Germany. That’s because my family came from…May 10, 2018May 10, 2018
Bea BallMarie Antoinette was not what we thinkEven people who don’t know history, or never heard of the French Revolution, know her name: Marie Antoinette, the last French queen, the…Mar 29, 20181Mar 29, 20181
Bea BallNew Orleans is back and buzzing againAbout 13 years ago, at the end of August, 2005, the world watched in disbelief a natural disaster of a scale rarely seen bring to its knees…Jan 23, 2018Jan 23, 2018
Bea BallHow meditation can change your life everydayMeditation was not always part of my life. Yoga was, and from an early age: my grandmother practiced it everyday some 40 years ago — before…Dec 11, 2017Dec 11, 2017
