Ich bin ein Berliner

Ich bin ein Berliner

Photo: Eastside Galleries Arriving at the airport in Berlin, we immediately spotted a kiosk where we could purchase multi-day tickets to Berlin’s transportation system – its trains, subways, and buses.  If you know the board game, Ticket to Ride, it’s like that,...
Top of the  Morning to You!

Top of the  Morning to You!

Being a native Bostonian, Dublin and surrounding towns were the ancestral homes of many of my peers growing up. So I have some  familiarity of Irish culture, and curiosity about the humor, the poetry, the wit, the writing, and traditional Irish music. We spent...
Creating Other Lenses

Creating Other Lenses

Recently my husband and I traveled to Dublin, Berlin, the UK, and Amsterdam. He dubbed the trip as “appetizer, salad, entrée, and dessert”.   While in Amsterdam, the dessert part of our trip,...
How to Hope

How to Hope

Recently, my son gave me Dr. Jane Goodall’s Book of Hope, subtitled “A Survival Guide for Trying Times.”  During this spate of recent darkness – the murders at Brown University, Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner – I needed Dr....
Fiddling While Rome Burns

Fiddling While Rome Burns

When my younger daughter texted me from New York saying she couldn’t talk because she was about to hop onto a train to go see Taylor Swift’s newly released “Life of a Showgirl,” my mind raced back a number of decades to the time when my closest, oldest friend and I...

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