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Ah, it occurs to me that I will soon visit my 48th state, and before I do, I want to knock off my key memories of the rest of the country. So, starting with Wisconsin, my main memory is visiting the site of Little House in the Big Woods, another Laura Ingalls Wilder stop – […] Until I moved to Weimar, I can honestly say I never really gave graffiti a second thought beyond “Why do people have to deface public property?” However, I’m somewhat of a pragmatist and I can remember clear as a day when I once sat next to a staunch conservative Republican in America—she had little tolerance […] This has been an incredibly great trip—productive on the one hand, fun on the other. Unfortunately it has to come to an end and I am heading back to Weimar today—getting home Monday morning. Home is, of course, a wonderful place and I although I slept in excellent beds at two different Hiltons, there is […] Yesterday I’d agreed to meet somebody on the CMU campus at noon—so I decided that I would walk to campus, explore it, and then find his office. I had a handy map from my hotel and I followed the streets thinking that I would end up on campus by walking down a street named Boundary, […] One of my few American weaknesses that I’ve managed to retain in Germany is my subscription to Rolling Stone. Not that it’s easy—I have a $99 lifetime subscription that is valid only in the States, so I must rely upon a friend to receive the magazine and then to forward it to me a few […] Like everybody else, every once in awhile I search myself—there’s actually a technical term for doing this: Egosurfing. Now, at least on US Google, I am happy to say that I come up immediately—however, I am not the only me out there. There are other parents who have named their kids Adam Lederer. If I […] Once upon a time, I was preparing to write a paper I ran across something interesting—but I didn’t write it down. Later, when I realized I needed it, I was complaining about having to go back to the library to find the book, find the quote, and record the information that I should have recorded […] |
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