Canadian Kate Baggott is a freelance writer who lives in Germany.

A Difficult Peace

I didn’t want my children to know. They were waiting for a baby to be placed in a manger. The doll, the placeholder for our…

Sex Slaves

Since the fall of the Berlin wall roughly 8 million Eastern European women have gone missing. Most have been trafficked into sexual slavery in North…

But What About the Children?

On Christmas Eve, after returning from the Catholic children’s service, my family and I will sit down to a dinner of 7 vegetarian dishes. The…