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…
Continue Reading Sauvies Island, again Regular readers are familiar with my obsession with Sauvies Island. It is one of my favorite spots to photograph, or, more importantly,…
Continue Reading ArtsWatch A recent encounter with a stranger yielded a gift. She had perused my art website, found it to her liking and saw…
Continue Reading Recent Encounters I am often astonished when I think about the variety of experiences in my daily life. So I thought this week, instead…
