No Hollywood Death
Hollywood did a piss job of preparing me for my father-in-law’s diagnosis in mid-August of terminal pancreatic cancer. Slow to be discovered and quick to consume the patient, we never […]
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Germany: Taking the Circus to the Circus
Christmas Eve I watched my four nephews nearly die of present-unwrapping-anticipation-insanity and almost fell asleep during the evening mass. Neither Chris nor I are religious, but his parents wanted to […]
Germany, Day 3: Not Doing the Tourist Thing
Most Americans think Germany is great. It looks like Disneyland. Actually, it’s the other way around, danke schoen. There are rivers of beer. There are mountains of chopped and formed […]
All Things Bright and Dark
Soon I will clink a glass of champagne on New Year’s Eve and bid goodbye to a strange year. Taking the Big Leap When it was decided that the full-time […]
Stephanie Golisch 