The title, "Gegenwart Bewältigung" needs a bit of explanation...
During our honeymoon driving Betsy and I read a book about German culture and learned the phrase "Vergangenheitsbewältigung," which means "coming to terms with the past," specifically the Nazi era. And Betsy made a song to help us remember it, and so we have. Therefore when thinking about blog names we modified our favorite German phrase-in-a-single-word to mean something like "coming to terms with the present" or as google translate puts it, "contemporary crisis management." Which sums up a lot of the first 3 weeks of getting settled here.
(Betsy adds: 1-800-fragt-de is a number we wished existed. We envision it as a hotline with a friendly, helpful, English-speaking German person on the other line, who could help us understand all of the road signs, customs, words and idioms that we don't quite get yet. "Fragt" is a conjugated version of "fragen" (to ask), and "de" is of course Deutschland.)
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