When type my first sentence, I know it isn't going to sound like it can possibly be true.  But I assure you that it is absolutely true:

Since we returned from the United States at the beginning of April we have been busy non-stop until last Thursday.  Take into account, when you read,  "Busy" that both eating and sleeping are required for human ( Read more... )

It is just one week and two days until Mom, Gabe and I board that Delta plane and fly back to the mighty USA ( Read more... )

You can never be too sure about hugs from drunks ( Read more... )

Andreas is moving to Ulm.
Where is Ulm anyway, and what kind of a name is that for a place to have?
Ulm is exactly on the other side of the country and the only merrits, I can tell, that it has is that, if you were to drive there the motorway would take you right through Nuremberg which is a nice place to be.  But because we are all Germans, most ( Read more... )

Almost every day something happens to me that I think is note-worthy//should be written down. But of course, I never write anything down these days.  I am in the middle of the biggest/longest writing slump of my young life and it is startin to kind of upset me.  Will I ever write again?

As a substitute for writing I keep myself busy with a whole ( Read more... )

So there's me-- Laying gloriously on the bed/couch in the upper room underneath a freshly washed quilt that is slightly scratchy and feeling like perfection, Rachel is beside me and we are very companionably enjoying "Amelie".  It is Sunday early evening, Mom and I have effectively managed to avoid eating pot-luck dinner with our church and I am on ( Read more... )

Real Friedrichshainer Now ( Read more... )

Two weeks on the couch

We spent our first two weeks sleeping on Anna's couch.
All things told it was a  lovely time, except that I had a cold and felt self conscious all night blowing my nose, that I was keeping my mother up. There were five of us in the flat all together plus the occasional extra guest or two and so the sense of community was as ( Read more... )

For lack of written journaling of my life I have been keeping a fairly accurate photo and video log of all events--- nearly minute by minute and in full color accuracy.  I am rather back-logged by with movies right now--- about to start working on the "Breezy Batty Special: Pre-Christmas Fun" followed by "Christmas in Berlin" which will include two ( Read more... )

I am downloading a bunch of Aimee Mann music.  I haven't listened to much Aimee Mann since I was 18 or 19!  I used to just be crazy about her.  I think I still like her--- but all of my CDs eventually died in some way or another.  Time to start over ( Read more... )