Continue Reading Art and Politics (1) Wouldn’t you know it. I thought I knew every major museum in NYC after having lived there for years and visited for…
Continue Reading The Rev. Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir Show me someone’s blog that opens with an Emma Goldman quote, consider me hooked. If that quote refers to small communal interactions…
Continue Reading On Lace and Limitations I had never visited a bridal store until last Friday. My own wedding dress was bought off the rack at a Laura…
Continue Reading Der Untertan Beware of the mother who gives her non-German speaking child the middle name of Heinrich. Never mind, that it runs in the…
Continue Reading Herbst Last night was the beginning of Sukkoth, the Jewish celebration of the harvest and commemoration of endless years of wandering in the…
Continue Reading The Dead Life One chapter of Thomas Mann’s novel Magic Mountain is titled The Great Stupor. He refers to the years before the onset of the great war,…
Continue Reading German Election Statistics I am forcing myself to write today after the ongoing wave of horrendous news, millions of people in Puerto Rico threatened with…
Continue Reading Deutscher Film This week’s blog will focus on all things German. Well, some things German. The choice was prompted by an upcoming exciting and…
Continue Reading Aging The last entry in this week’s “recent encounters” category is a simple one: a conversation about aging. As luck would have it, I…
Continue Reading Doc Pomus One thing I always thought Americans excelled at was volunteerism. I have never seen the same quality and quantity of people helping…
