The headline pretty much is the gist of any conversation I’ve had abroad when people asked me something about Germany. As per Chutzpah’s request, I’ll do a list of things that are...
Author - froylein
With Certain J-Bloggers in Mind…
“Dependant” is a noun. (Unless you refer to habitual substance abuse; that use in particular and the use of “dependant” as an adjective is only listed by WordNet though, so in...
The Day After Yesterday
It’s day 3 after my return to the Old World, and I still haven’t found satisfactory answers to questions that arose during my umpteenth trip to NYC (lost count after my fifteenth trip...
All my bags are packed,…
… and I hope they won’t get weighed at check-in. One of the flipsides of having a big family is that whenever I go someplace that’s not my workplace, I’m expected to bring...
Muffti and ck in NYC
I have to make do with what I can get, haven’t I?
Kumbayah, my Lord, kumbayah?
Heh, I went to NYC again, and since I promised ck to try to post something, I will. The plane was crowded with people on their connecting flight from Australia, where they had attended the World...
Of Men, Mice, Heroes, Cowards
Yesterday, 20th July, was the sixty-fourth anniversary of the attempted assassination of Hitler in the Führer’s head quarters in Berlin. The operation codenamed ‘Valkyrie’ was...
In Need of Your Collective Help
So, I’ve booked my next trip to NYC and soon will be somewhere here: The thing is that I was hopeful to meet ck on that trip, but fate has it he’ll be in NYC right after I will have left...