Continue Reading Envy Originally I thought I’d write about envy, another of the 7 deadly sins, in the context of being a woman artist. It…
Continue Reading Gluttony I’ve mentioned before that I don’t like to cook. I like to eat but am pretty indifferent to what kind of food,…
Continue Reading Selective Sins The recurrent heat this summer has induced a certain idleness, which, as it turns out, I cherish. The absence of pressure to…
Continue Reading Nature’s Brush About a hundred years ago a lover used to call me the feuerrote Friderike, the fiery red Friderike. It was never resolved if…
Continue Reading Free Association One of my important goals in life is to be rational. I’ve always found irrationality to be a threat, leading to various…
Continue Reading Sailing away When my father was young and wild, cooped up in a small town in Lower Saxony, sweeping and cleaning the lab of…
Continue Reading The Sights of San Diego I spent a terrific weekend in San Diego. Will report on several aspects throughout the week, starting today with what I picked…
Continue Reading Propaganda Films Today I will keep it short – between the tragedy in Barcelona and the insanity coming out of the White House and…
Continue Reading The Partition of Hindustan 70 years ago this August the colonial powers divided what was known as Hindustan into two entities – India and Pakistan. One…
Continue Reading Dead Meat No, the title is not a description of my current state – it is the pointer to today’s topic of propaganda: the…
