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This is another Brandenburg Tor, this time made out of nanoblocks. With its brushy brethren, it resides in my kitchen – a fun reminder of Berlin’s number one tourist attraction. I ordered it June 1, 2014 (Thanks Amazon for reminding me) – and my distinct memory of building it is that it took me […] Living in Weimar for 6 years – my first six years in Germany – I learned something important very quickly: Weimar IS THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING. Weimar is home to Goethe (died 1832), Schiller (died 1805), and is The European Capital of Culture (1999). It is the home to all great German things. Spend […] I am the baby of the family – clearly an accident. Growing up, my Mother had silhouettes of my siblings (as kids) hanging on the wall by her desk – and she wanted one of me as well. The above was procured at a renaissance faire/festival – at least as I recall it. I […] Color this another “annoyed” whatchamacallit – today I am supposed to heading to Bloomington, Indiana, for a few days – some meetings, many friends, an escape from work. Instead, of course, I am working from home in Berlin. I have been ruminating about my representations of Bloomington – a city I lived in for […] A long time ago I discovered Original Source – specifically their mint products. This one (“for men”) is Black Mint, from the British market, but does not appear on their website. Only “mint and tea tree” is for sale, both in the UK and Germany, per the websites. There are two things I really […] There’s a lot to be said for the Euro: no more losing value when crossing borders within the euro-zone: day trips from Berlin to Paris don’t incur an inherent exchange penalty. On the downside, euro banknotes are designed to be non-specific and boring (although the bridges were subsequently constructed, see Spijkenisse). My favorite pre-euro […] Since 2009 I’ve had a calendar of firefighters on my wall. For the first 9 years, it was the Colorado Firefighters Calendar, which supports the Children’s Hospital Colorado. However, as time went by, I became less and less enchanted with the calendar: it started out slick, but it became slicker. With the main photos, […] This sweater is hung on the back of my front door – it does so to block people from easily looking through my mail slot – which is still in my door even though mailboxes are now located near the front door. When I went to Saskatchewan back in 2018 – making it my […] Monday morning, I went for my (now) usual morning constitutional – leaving home at 06:00, back around 07:30. The goal is to get my 10,000 steps in while the streets are deserted. There is a careful dance early in the morning – people take detours in order to avoid each other – whether a […] One of my friends has started studying Japanese – and after the first lesson, she informed me that the Japanese word for “father” is Chichi. Which led me to speculate, out loud, “I wonder where Chi Chi LaRue got his nickname.” “Who is Chi Chi LaRue,” she asked. “He was a famous golfer when I […] |
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