We’ve had such bizarre trouble with our landline for weeks now, with virtual repairmen who didn’t show up and left messages with the helpline hours later. My work was piling up, and my blood pressure was rising. And then the MacBook Pro had trouble with the software on the Vodafone mobile stick that I was [...]
We’re happily installed in our new nest in Berlin-Charlottenburg (thank you to Michael and Christof) and are ready to take it nice and slow for a few days. Happy holidays to all!
Here is my favorite jazzification of a venerable Christmas carol, Kommet Ihr Hirten by David Gazarov. Please excuse my copyright infringement, powers that be, [...]
Teacher/translator, 49 (for another few days), seeks office companionship with other like-minded independents aka freelancers aka knowledge workers. Needs office accessible from street level and public transportation in Berlin, by those not willing to mount 5 stories to her new bird’s nest. Looking for a space close to the heart of things, where minds are [...]
Thanks Helmut.
There’s a personal story that goes with this, as you can well imagine. My first present from my husband was a…
Blog challenge! Please join in and add two similar but different pictures to your blog!
Brad Patterson had the nice idea after I’d posted this.
Looking forward to seeing your pictures.
The following people have taken the [...]
Dear Bode Museum,
I’d like to place a complaint. You have an exclusive ongoing exhibition, Gesichter der Renaissance/ Faces of the Renaissance, containing all sorts of famous portraits. But vexingly enough, when I tried to get tickets online, your website was down, and I couldn’t get through to you for days. Then, when Helmut and I [...]
“The Problem We All Live With” by Norman Rockwell is currently on display at the White House, just outside the president’s office. It shows Ruby Bridges, the most famous of the children who in 1960, at the age of 6, walked into an all-white school and helped desegregate the schools of New Orleans. Daddy’s brave [...]
As she heard the bird, it occurred to her that the word she had heard was “a third”, not “a turd”. (ö)
Let me roast my toast, then I’ll head for the coast. (long o)
This plot shows the cost of lost lives in a dotted line. (short o)
All fall over the clover. (short [...]
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