Look to the past
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Sunday will mark exactly two years since Chris and I moved to Tübingen, Germany. As always when we reach one of this little time milestones, I just can’t believe how quickly the time has gone by.
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Feeling Sluggish
I remember seeing giant banana slugs years ago when we visited the campus of the University of Santa Cruz in California. The paths through campus were crawling — if that’s the right word — with these pretty, albeit slimy, bright … Continue reading
The Right Perspective
Take a look at the follow photo – do you see the metal thing on the top of the fairy-tale like turret roof? It looks like a figure with its arms outstretched, doesn’t it:
The Happy German Wanderer
I remember back in elementary school we would periodically sing from a folk-song book. I had thought at the time that all the songs were American folk songs – if the song book said otherwise, I didn’t notice or retain … Continue reading
House about that!
Shortly after we arrived in Tübingen, somebody told us that the oldest house in Tübingen was not too far away from where we live:
The Hovercraft of Alpirsbach
Remember how I mentioned in passing the other day that Chris and I had gone to the Black Forest on a day trip? The town we went to was Alpirsbach, one of the first towns you come to in the … Continue reading
Little green men
You see little green men everywhere when you go to cities in the former East Germany. Specifically, you see little green men
Old and New
Although I’ve had a website for a while, I decided to give it a facelift.
Suspended above nothing at all
Chris and I made a short day-trip to the Black Forest area of Germany on Saturday. It’s less than 2 hours by train from Tübingen, but there are no direct trains that go from here to there – we wound … Continue reading
Coffee and cream
When I was a kid, my uncle Bob always drank cold coffee. I recall at family gatherings that there would always be a cup of coffee set aside and put into the refrigerator for him. As a kid, this was … Continue reading