While waiting for public transport earlier, I looked up & this is what I saw. Tell me what’s wrong with this again. Nothing, I tell you. This is coincidentally where I was standing last summer after the German national football team won their fourth World Cup. What a night that was. Back to normal,… Continue reading There’s so much you miss if you forget to look up
Author: Ken
I ate the Donut Burger, so you wouldn’t have to
Food trucks have made their way to Munich. They’re not quite brand new, but they’re relatively fresh on the scene. So, there was an event today called Circus of Food, and there I was with Ella and Louis wandering from food truck to food truck trying to make the most of my choice. What delicacy… Continue reading I ate the Donut Burger, so you wouldn’t have to
they’ve just locked away their goods for the rest of the weekend
Reading more blogs about living in Germany, I’m noticing there’s quite a lot of material I’ve not even bothered to cover here. When you live somewhere long enough, even as an outsider, you begin to take local oddities for granted. Last week, for example, I was rushing out the door to grab some milk,… Continue reading they’ve just locked away their goods for the rest of the weekend
Generosity toward the future
‘Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.‘ (Albert Camus) Perhaps it’s a side effect of aging, but I find myself complaining about weather more than I did when I was younger. When I was quite young, my grandmother was obsessed with watching the evening news, and the part… Continue reading Generosity toward the future
On the lookout for just such a thing
As long as I’ve lived here, I still regularly turn a corner and see something that I’d not noticed before. For example, this sculpture outside of the Scheidplatz U- Bahn station looked completely new to me when I passed it the other day. Grizzly guy with some sort of little person sitting on his… Continue reading On the lookout for just such a thing
Hiding behind the curtain
A topic that I find myself thinking about when considering what to write about here has to do with the ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain‘ line that I’ve had on this blog since I started it. See, I’ve talked with plenty of people about online privacy and blogging and how much of… Continue reading Hiding behind the curtain
no matter what wanderlust comes upon me
The sun has made an appearance after a long winter, and it’s time to go outside. If you know anything about my dogs Ella and Louis, you know that means we’ll be going up up up. They love to hike in the Alps, and I don’t blame them. In the last few days, I’ve heard… Continue reading no matter what wanderlust comes upon me
My beautiful heathen
Nearly as long as I’ve been blogging, I’ve been trying to avoid talking too much about twitter. For one thing, it’s incredibly boring if you’re not already there. So many people with whom I interact in my daily life ridicule the medium, and I gave up long ago any hope of changing their… Continue reading My beautiful heathen
Shining in the light of the setting sun
When you’ve got nothing interesting to say, talk about the weather. Right? Well, I’ve got plenty of interesting things to talk about….still the coming springtime is on my mind. This wasn’t the hardest winter, but I’ve been ready to usher it out the door for most of February. I’m not normally like that, which… Continue reading Shining in the light of the setting sun
Fine words butter no parsnips
Well, I was just kidding when I assured Robert Godden that I’d used ‘Fine words butter no parsnips’ in a long ago blogpost. Purportedly, he’s just spent an hour looking through the archives of my various blogs for the nonexistent time I used that phrase…now I almost feel bad, but not really. Maybe he-of-gullible-tendencies… Continue reading Fine words butter no parsnips