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Berlin Festival of Lights, Opening Night

Brandenburger Tor is impressive during the Festival of Lights.

Lights along Unter den Linden.

Television reporters getting ready for a liveshot of the Berliner Dom

Surprisingly difficult to capture, plus the lights on the base were moving.

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Making It Better: 13 Years After Matthew Shepard

As is with tradition, today is the day that I pause to reflect upon Matthew Shepard, the University of Wyoming student who was savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.

Trying to avoid too much repetition this year (see 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, or any of the many times […]

Orange you glad it’s fall?

This weekend was the Schöneberg Kürbisfest – that is the Schöneberg Pumpkin Festival – on the nearby Akazienstraße.

Saturday the weather wasn’t really that great and I only briefly wandered through it, buying a few pumpkins to decorate my apartment for the month of October. Sunday morning was clear and crisp – temperatures have fallen […]

Does anybody else remember Alvin Fernald?

A couple days ago I was reflecting back on the books that I read as a child – and one series I remember concerned a kid by the name of Alvin Fernald.

Alvin was a kid who constantly got himself into and out of trouble.

The two stories I remember the most are when Alvin […]

Friday Night, at home.

Federweißer with pizza fixings in the background.

Before going into the oven. I forgot to take the baked picture…

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Have you noticed? Lots of photos…

Recently I got a present – an expensive present – and I was able to do most of the choosing of the bits.

Since the information is out there, it’s a Canon 60D.

What I’ve come to discover, which I had suspected, is that I really didn’t know a lot about photography and that I […]

On the gym life and doing more cardio.

Last Friday I met my personal trainer who decided that she wanted to change my routine by having me alternate between weights-and-cardio days with pure cardio days.

To make it interesting, my cardio only days feature 35 minutes of stationary bicycling (something new for me) and 35 minutes of the Vario machine that’s like an […]

One Day Only: Summer in Berlin