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Geesh, I have not had a lot of time to blog lately.
What have I been up to?
Thüringen Bratwurst
I spent a weekend down in Thüringen, one night each in Jena, Weimar, and Erfurt – it was a weekend of visiting many friends and three kids. Unfortunately I only saw two kids because […]
It happens to me quite often, of late: I am somewhere. Let’s say the Turkish Supermarket, Monday evening at 7:30, and I suddenly realize that I have never before been happier in my life.
And in truth this spontaneous joy is happening to me surprisingly often of late.
This stands in stark contrast to Peter […]
A few years ago I was in Washington DC, walking down the street, playing the part of tourist, when I came upon some locals – people playing football in the park, jogging down the streets, carrying groceries home.
I was envious – these were people who get to live every day in a fabulous city […]
Now that I’ve moved in and, essentially, have everything in its place (ha! I have a pile of bottles that need to be returned waiting, in of all places, my living room), I feel like I can start building a supra-structure for the rest of my life.
I don’t have any large purchases left, I […]
When I was a kid, many summers I went with my father from Denver, across the country to New York
These trips were by car: Up Interstate 76 to Nebraska, where we joined I-80 going east through Lincoln, Omaha, Des Moines, the southern edge of Chicago, across northern Indiana and Ohio until Cleveland where we […]
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TQE : That Queer Expatriate I'm an American living in Berlin, Germany -- which makes me an expatriate, not an ex-patriot. Before landing in Germany, I've lived in Denver, Colorado; Laramie, Wyoming; Bloomington, Indiana; and Weimar, Germany. If you want to write to me, feel free! The username is elmadaeu on the gmail.com service.
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