After a week of being quietly online, I think it's time for an official launch of Speaking Denglish!

What happened to ifs ands & butts?

Although ifs ands & butts made for some good play on words, I felt in no longer defined the purpose of my blog and what I'm doing with it. If you can believe it, ifs ands & butts was online for over four years. I began it merely out of necessity to display some writing as a PR student. Despite my studies, I knew nothing about the blogging community (nor can you ever without being an active participant) and throughout the years, I evolved as a writer, designer, and brand. I became associated with au pairing, which was great during the time and immediately after, but it's been two years and the au pair process evolved. It is something I can no longer provide advice on, nor do I want it to be a part of my brand.

ifs ands & butts still lives amongst the Interwebs, but as an archived file within Speaking Denglish. I surely did not want to lose my work and memories, but I wanted a (almost) fresh slate and chance to start over, knowing what I know about blogging now.

Why Speaking Denglish?

Denglish, a language mashup of German and English, metaphorically represents my life and blog content. I am an expat, or Texpat (Texan Expat), living long-term in a foreign country. I speak Denglish, dropping German words in my English conversation and vice-versa.

Mission Statement

To provide accurate and helpful information for other expats and those interested in expat life, particularly in Germany, whilst also keeping an online memory book to share with friends and family all over the world.

Why today?

Well, I heavily considered this blog switch for ages and it finally just seemed 100 percent right. Also, it's my 25th birthday and Easter Sunday. I'd say it's a pretty good day for a blog launch (despite any and every marketer ever knowing this is a terrible day to launch as no one is online).

Please, take a look around.

I am still working out some bugs with my trusty coding guy, but I could not hold in my excitement anymore. Broken links and redirects will take about another week to properly sort out, but I'm back to blogging and couldn't be happier. For those that look really well, there's some pretty damn good Easter Eggs hidden somewhere on my blog as a reward to you.

But that's not all...

For those who don't find a lucky easter egg, I'll give you another chance to achieve greatness. Yes, greatness is only $25 smackers and a sidebar spot.



Thank you to all of my ifs ands & butts readers who emailed and commented encouraging me to follow my heart and stomach instead of my head, to all of those who stuck around anyway, to my offline readers who keep encouraging me to pursue this hobby by reminding me of their readership, and to everyone who's every answered questions in online forums - you're helping more people than you realize!

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