I’ve just stolen a few moments to look at the blogs I look at. There are a handful that I peruse and enjoy, and they all belong to people I know, which is nice. And today those blogs made me feel better because, without exception, no one is posting much these days. Why should that […]
Read moreI feel good, you know, when the “word of the day” shows up on my Yahoo home page. Those words are always so Easy. Today, for example, the word of the day is “lithe.” Give me a break. I’ve known that word Forever. A real confidence boost, that. What does not boost my confidence in […]
Read moreSo I’m in the shower this morning, hurrying through my daily ablutions because it was four hours and counting until Emma Grace’s birthday party began, and I hadn’t even frosted the cake yet. Maybe it sounds like an April Fool’s joke to hold a party on April Fool’s Day for a little girl whose birthday […]
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It was comforting, when we were in Switzerland two weeks ago, to find that they hadn’t changed it much. The Alps, for example: still there. St. Gallen, the city housing Bill’s university and the reason for our being there in the first place: unchanged, so far as I could tell. And our little town, Speicher, […]
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The truth is, Oh Reader, that I am not a very resourceful person. Well, okay, in some ways I am. I am, for example, good at books. I like thinking of books, and Ideas in books, and ideas that connect to these ideas, and finding these ideas Elsewhere. And I’m not bad at thinking of […]
Read moreHave you ever noticed what a young thing an airplane is?Yes, I know we began flying a hundred years ago,but age and years are not always the same.Surely you see how young they are: the way they crowd the tarmacadolescent in their idleness. Eager. Antsy. They trundle stiff-armed down the runway, ungainly and awkward,Gathering speed […]
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In July 1943, the Allies bombed Hamburg in an air-raid that went on for days. Much of the city was destroyed, including the Gothic St. Nikolai Church. Only some of the exterior walls remain, and the church spire. We spent quite a long time here. The basement of the former building houses a museum with […]
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We went for a walk around Hamburg todayand it was Very Very Cold. Here is a picture of the Hamburg rathaus, which means “government building,” or something similar. Which means that, directly translated, rat would mean governor, or politician, or something like that…. Hmmm. Here is the tower of St. Michael’s Church. It is far […]
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Here are some things we saw in Hamburg today that we thought you’d like. The first is simply an advertisement in a coffee shop. As you know, saft is German for “juice.” But we didn’t want juice today, because we didn’t want to drink anything cold. In fact, as we walked around Hamburg, we found […]
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Okay. What’s the deal? This was clearly the spring for you tobe in Europe, Byron. Or maybe this trip was supposed to be your itinerary. Anyway, we visited this very famous church in Hamburg today, and look what we found posted outside!!! Maybe St. Matthew’s Passion is a favorite with the German-speaking world, too, huh?
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