Monday Mysteries: The Dogs and Jackals of Mesopotamia
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Today on Monday Mysteries we travel to Mesopotamia by way of Berlin to track down the secret of a Mesopotamian game board.
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Not so mysterious Monday
Today is Monday, but the only mystery is why I decided to post a photo of Berlin, taken on a snowy day last year:
Food on Fridays: Finding something to “write home” about
Today on Food on Fridays, I take a look at the diverse food experiences we had on our recent trip to the U.K.
Ambling around Omagh
It took me a while last Friday, on a dark and dreary morning when everything seemed clothed in a grey veil, but I finally located the tourist information center in downtown Omagh, a town about 70-80 kilometers west of Belfast. … Continue reading
How I learned all I ever needed to know
There is really a book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. With apologies to the author of that book — a book I have never read, I might add — I beg to disagree with … Continue reading
An impossible mirror
Just a quick postscript to yesterday’s post about the first day I took photos with the new cell phone camera. As I mentioned, I did take photos in rooms other than the bedroom, but my favorite photo, yesterday’s LLM’s Unmade … Continue reading
Playing with the Unmade Bed
There’s a story that the American photographer Imogen Cunningham used to tell about her friend and fellow photographer Dorothea Lange. The two women were contemporaries but had different styles of photography: Cunningham once said that she “need never photograph ugliness”, … Continue reading
Monday Mysteries: The Pelican at the Apotheke
Today on Monday Mysteries we take a look at a Pelican and her children and why they are engraved above an Apotheke doorway in downtown Tübingen.
Food on Fridays: Packing a punch
Food on Fridays looks today at a special kind of dessert from this part of Germany: Der Burgunderpunch Kuchen.
Watch the birdie
So after months of debating whether or not I should get one, I recently decided to buy a smartphone. One of the uses for a smartphone is to use it as a cellphone. However, I actually didn’t buy a phone … Continue reading