Claudia Clark's Blog

A lot has happened in the last months, and to put it briefly, I’ve published a children’s book! The publicity campaign for Hannah’s Call To Care will go live on Monday, July 7, 2025. The press release will be sent to media correspondents worldwide. I am pleased that the initial feedback for the book has been positive. The Kids-heaven Instagram group rated it as one of the top 15 children’s…

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One of the best things about writing this book is learning new and interesting facts about animals of which I had no previous knowledge. One of these animals is the platypus or the duck-billed platypus. This animal fascinated me so much that I asked Brian to adopt a platypus for my birthday rather than another koala or kangaroo. These unique animals are so mysterious that after the first British…

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“They’re warm and cuddly. They’re not like Kangaroos.” -Mike Pengilly, Mayor Kangaroo Island. For the last several weeks, I debated what my next blog post would be. Would I write part 2 of my koala blog or focus on another endangered endemic Australian animal? The answer became clear after some activities about koalas and their fate in the last couple of weeks— I need to discuss them and their...

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As I change my focus with this next book, I will alter my blogposts accordingly. I plan to alternate between posts about Australia’s unique animals and the challenges they face. I also aim to interview caregivers and veterinarians about their work and challenges, and in time I hope to have guest blog posts from said people about their daily lives. In this spirit, my first post is about my personal...

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I do not remember exactly how old I was when I saw my first photo of a koala—no more than eight and I instantly fell in love with the cuddly creature. As I grew older, and became aware of other animals, in particular, kangaroos and wallabies, I became equally fascinated with them as I was with koalas. By the time I was twelve, I had a stuffed animal collection, of which over 100 comprised of...

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April’s research involved visiting the Marienfelde Refugee Center in Berlin where 1.3 million people passed through between 1953 and 1990 as a necessary step in their journey to become free and legal West German citizens. The Center became necessary and funded by the West German government after the East German government sealed off the intra-German border in May 1952. Because of this action...

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I realize it has been a long time since my last post, but the last few months of 2022 and the beginning ones of 2023 were a roller coaster for my family. The craziness began in mid-October when my husband Brian and I signed the paperwork to purchase a home in the southeastern district of Berlin known as Rudow. Then less than a week later, thanks to a routine mammogram I was diagnosed with breast...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin had had his sights on Ukraine for several years before he initiated an unprovoked attack against the independent, democratic nation on February 24, 2022. In the months leading to the invasion, Putin and his allies had accused the Ukrainian people of “genocide” against native Russians and ethnic Russian speakers in the Donbas in order to justify “the special...

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Feature in AngiesWeb.com Visiting the Northern region of France known as Normandy is somewhere I had always wanted to go, because my mother had been a French teacher and spent several years there as part of an exchange program while she was in college. She was quite fond of the area. From the time I was a small child she showed me photos and shared her stories of the time she spent there.

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Because 2021 had been an especially troubling year for Brian and me on a personal level, we decided at the first feasible opportunity in 2022 to take a much-needed vacation. We had planned to go to London in December 2021, but at the advice of Brian’s doctors we decided to postpone. However, we still had vouchers for both our plane tickets and our Hamilton tickets at the Queen Victoria Theater in...

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