First off.. happy new year, folks! I’ll keep my explanation for my silence short: my blogging muse is on permanent hiatus or visiting more exciting blogs on the planet. After 4 years of blogging, I’m not too disappointed. I haven’t decided what I will...

For the past month we’ve been watching old news reports and new documentaries of the events in Germany leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago today. It doesn’t seem very prominent in Munich but most everywhere else, especially near the...