Last weekend while at the debating workshop, I fell in love with a coat. Generally I try to save such profound feelings for animate beings rather than insentient things, but this was stronger than reason or will power, and my next door neighbor ...

I have only just returned from an incredibly inspiring two-day seminar on school debating held just outside of Cologne (a city infamous for having created one of the - to my mind - most unpleasant fragrances of all time, 4711  http://www.4711.com...

It was quite exciting for me to see Merkel chatting easily with Obama in the White House during her historic trip to address the US Congress; in some way, as the daughter of a German mother and American father, I was pleased and proud to see the...

 Admittedly I am jumping the gun a bit because we are nowhere near Thanksgiving just yet, but I felt truly fulfilled the other day and wanted to write about the experience. (more…)

A friend of mine from back in Freiburg days has been a full professor of English at the University of Leipzig for a decade or more now. When Elmar of the blue eyes, very curly hair and infectious smile recently emailed me an attachment of a...