Category Archives: Germany

Naked with strangers

Posted on July 30, 2019 by

Spoiler alert…this is not a post that will be rife with nude pictures. If that’s your interest, move along now, no reason to tarry. To say I grew up in a prim and proper family with few PDAs (public displays … Continue reading →

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The Power of Pleasures and the Growth of Gratitude

Posted on June 30, 2019 by

Just this past week, June 25, 2019 to be precise, The Atlantic magazine ran an article entitled “The Yale Happiness Class, Distilled,” by Joe Pinsker. In it he reports that this year’s Aspen Institute hosted Laurie Santos, the Yale psychology … Continue reading →

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A slice of Schwerin

Posted on May 12, 2019 by

I was fortunate that my good friend K recently invited M and me to go visit our friend U in Schwerin, giving us a chance to see the famous castle there and take a turn around the historic small town. … Continue reading →

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Görlitz, the Sleeping Beauty of Silesia

Posted on March 24, 2019 by

Last week was an interesting confluence of the spring equinox and a full “Worm” moon, so named because of the thawing earth bringing the reappearance of earthworms and hence the robins. Well, it certainly thawed me out and put me … Continue reading →

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Hints of Heidelberg and Happy Trails

Posted on February 26, 2019 by

As some of you know, I spent a fair bit of my youth tucked away in rural southern California on the Mojave Desert. There’s a back story, of course, but what’s relevant here is that my little burg sported a … Continue reading →

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A hint of Hamburg

Posted on December 30, 2017 by

It’s unfortunate that many of us make our first acquaintance of the word “Hamburg” through the lens of that most American food group, the hamburger. It’s true that there is a kind of flattened meatball from the region known as … Continue reading →

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Art and Life in Potsdam

Posted on April 14, 2017 by

There are a lot of really good reasons to visit Potsdam, a city in its own right 24 km/15 miles southwest of Berlin. Designed using Age of Enlightenment ideals, it was intended to convey “a picturesque, pastoral dream” to remind … Continue reading →

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