Author: Solveig

Solveig currently lives in Paris with her fiancé and their kids, there she works as a freelance German teacher. On her blog she shares stories from everyday life, short stories, paintings, almost anything you can imagine.
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Advent Calendar 2018

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Now, that the presents are all unwrapped, that the bird is eaten and that you are wondering how you are going to survive the excess that comes with New Year’s Eve, it’s time for me to say thank you.

Thank you!

Thank you for making the 4th edition of the Advent Calendar a success! So many people contributed, read, commented that I am certain that there will be a 5th edition next December. Are you up for it?

I hope that everyone enjoyed themselves, made friends, discovered writers, artists, bloggers…

But until next December, here is the overview of the 4th edition:

Day 1: Chocolate Countdown by Tara Paray
Day 2: In Santa’s Shadow by Trent P. McDonald 
Day 2: Letters to Santa by Solveig Werner
Day 3: The Advent Calendar by Geoff Le Pard
Day 4: Why You Should Learn to Communicate Better With Your Spouse by Holly Geely
Day 5: Silent Night by Rowena Curtin
Day 6: Christmas Traditions by Kelli King
Day 7: Christmas Sonnet by David Tremayne-Smith
Day 8: A Unique Christmas Ornament by Gary Wilson 
Day 9: Snow and Smiles by Melanie Noell Bernard 
Day 9: Gifts for a bookish friend by Stephanie Augustine
Day 10: Magic Castle by Solveig’s Daughter
Day 11: He Knows When You are Sleeping by Trent P. McDonald
Day 12: Celebrating the little things we love about Winter by Chloe Romengas
Day 13: Nagging Questions by Solveig Werner
Day 14: All I want for Christmas … by Beaton
Day 15: Snow by Solveig Werner
Day 16: Christmas 2018 (after Betjamen) by Geoff Le Pard
Day 16: Christmas Critters by Tara Paray | Advent 2018
Day 17: Operation Santa Claus by Corina Carrasco
Day 18:
Day 19: A Child at Heart by Angela Guidolin
Day 20: The Greatest Gift by Solveig Werner
Day 21: Christmas Away From Home by Katharina Barten 
Day 22: Magical, Boozy, Nutty Christmas Cake by Marjorie Mallon
Day 23: There’s Always One by Holly Geely
Day 24: Christmas in Rhyolite, Nevada by S.D. Gates

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Christmas in Rhyolite, Nevada by S.D. Gates | Advent 2018 – Day 24

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Christmas in Rhyolite, Nevada

By S.D. Gates

She had always wanted to visit the collection of sculptures in Rhyolite, Nevada – always. But Rhyolite is so far out of the way from anything, it’s about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, on a paved, but very bumpy road, which winds its way through a landscape littered with Joshua trees, desert sage and interesting rock formations. It is about 4 miles outside of Beatty, Nevada, but really that doesn’t serve as much of a point of reference, as probably 99.99% of the world’s population doesn’t know where Beatty, Nevada is either. Suffice it to say – Rhyolite is in the middle of desert, in the middle of nowhere.

With a love of all things strange; strange buildings, strange art formations, strange landmarks, she was always searching for the new, but old. She was drawn to ghost towns such as a nail is to a magnet. To her, it was like walking back into the past, seeing the old, decaying buildings, and wondering – why people would think the site they built their town on, was a good site, and considering – why they left it as they did.

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