I've just spent the last half hour reading the journals I posted a link to in my last post. It's so upsetting. If you scroll down there's a transcript of a conversation interdictor had with a police officer who was seeking shelter in his building. I'm at a loss for words. How could things get to this state ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,

silly monkey !!!!!!!!!!!

I have an infestation of beetles, they're called DickmaulruesslerI HATE them, but I am also afraid of them, which makes it hard for me to go out at NIGHT (which is when they crawl out of the soil to decimate my plants) to collect them and murder them. But the idea of touching them even through gloves makes me shudddder, so I'll just have to let ( Read more... )

POBIG!! Hope you're having a good day!
I'll call later...

love from your sister Annie

I have been meaning to write about a conversation I had recently with a woman in my orchestra. She has had cancer in the distant past, and I was aware that it had come back about 2 years ago, and that it had gotten really serious this year. But I was too involved with my life and worrying about Papa's illness to think about it. Anyway, recently a ( Read more... )

I love this time of year, until a minute ago, it was still light enough out to read outside in my 'back yard'.

6 consonants in a row, isn't the German language entertaining ( Read more... )

I came home from therapy this morning feeling depressed... until I wrote this list on an impulse. Once I got started, I couldn't stop ( Read more... )

Somebody or other is using my email account to send spam/viruses. I just got a weird returned mail of messages that couldn't be sent, and i sure didn't send a single one! I'll start by changing my password, but what else can I do about it?

Christiane and I were kind of driving around the Grunewald part of Berlin cheerfully and aimlessly, after visiting a gorgeous interior design store housed in an old villa. We were half joking about all the 'nazi' houses, huge dark brooding mansions, wondering about the kind of people who lived in them 60 years ago. It occurred to me that the ( Read more... )