20 years ago – November 9,1989
© msnbc.com Today, twenty years ago, the Berlin wall fell. I was thirteen at the time and I remember seeing the news on TV. But because my family lived in the far western part of (West)...
Category: my so-called life
Happy 40th anniversary.
When I woke up this morning and turned on the computer, Google greeted me with this image: Ah yes, Big Bird on Wednesday, Cookie Monster yesterday and Bert and Ernie today. I see a trend....
Are you participating in NaBloPoMo this month? Anyone?
NaBloPoMo starts today! Like every year in the past three years, I am up for the challenge – posting every single day for the 30 days of November. I think this will be good. Puh....
TGIF.
I was out in the field twice this week. I had five 10+ hours days. I am so ready for the weekend. That’s all.… Read more
J’s birthday
Sunday was J’s birthday. The weather, well, wasn’t worth mentioning – if I think about the fact that we spent Js birthday last year at a Pumpkin Patch in the sun, me wearing a tank top and...
Fall came over night
Let’s bring out the candles, the tea, the blankets! Fall is here and in California that usually means the first rain after a long, hot summer. Mr. Fall was a little boisterous, too – literally...
My journey home
The day of travel was a little chaotic, to say the least. My Dad took me to Düsseldorf airport around 6:30 a.m. last Wednesday and when we arrived, there were LONG (and I mean, really...
Germany Recap from last week Part II
Election Day Sunday morning, after we had cleaned up the party remains and had had breakfast, we took showers and got dressed to take a stroll downtown (there was “verkaufsoffener Sonntag” and City Fall Festival). We...