Not a steel girder after all
Let us revisit:1. Health busted. 2. Sleep busted. 3. Heart busted. 4. Entire order of the universe busted -- due to BAD news from San Francisco.In under four months. The last item on the the list...
View ArticleCrrrrrrraaaaaaap!
Me, window table, Cafe Sowohlalsauch, Sony Vaio.Three times in a row I punched the On button. Blue and yellow keyboard lights danced odd flickery dances. The screen? Slept. I tried again. Soothing...
View ArticleQuadraplegia, Day 2
It is not the hard drive. It is the motherboard. The friggin' heart and soul of the laptop itself.I feel legless, armless. I bang my forehead against the keyboard at my local Internet hovel. A sunless...
View ArticleOne Year in Berlin
Today. At 9:40 a.m. Exactly.Now is your chance (while you're here, putting off work you know needs doing) to:Relive the early hours! The first impressions! And the second!Reacqaint yourself with...
View ArticleI take it back
About needing to see the Ex.Yesterday someone told me of an encounter with him. What he said. How he said it.Her report was a red-hot branding iron, pressed against my sternum.I wept, off and on. For...
View ArticleTough to feel sorry for yourself
When you see the footage of Georgians on your TV Saturday.Tough to hold the channel steady for: refugee camps, Russian tanks, child corpses in charred autos.When you could be watching: Sea of Love....
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ohmygodialmostforgot
Madonna turned 50 yesterday!!!!!And there I was frittering away the hours with a blog about the Caucuses. Where are my priorities?Last night, a string of videos: The whip of her body, lavender lycra....
View ArticleThe longer I don't see him...
The fuzzier he grows. A figment of my imagination. A dream I once had. Or a dream once had by a girl who used to be me. Maybe that's for the best. Or maybe it makes those moments when I'm told of him...
View ArticleI am in San Francisco
Living through stuff that doesn't get to be blogged. But the sky is blue. And the sushi is exquisite. And my new MacBook is the best thing that ever happened to me. Black as gunpowder. Masculine as...
View ArticleVery Quiet Blog
Very quiet blogger. I appear to be indulging in a 14-day jet-lag induced hibernation. And: Reading the Golden Compass voraciously (in German!). Also: Showing multiple, overlapping out-of-towner around...
View ArticleI have lost the blogging bug
There's plenty to say. A Madonna reading in Munich. A hankering for Dirndls. A plan for Paris.And yet. Mum's the word here in Prenzl' Berg.Besides, I'm trying to earn some money. Editing....
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Winter comes to Ryke Strasse
My friendly neighborhood Schneemann. Before he drove away.
View ArticleBack of his motorcycle
Back of his motorcycle, two in the a.m., hold tight! and FLY. Berlin barren, alight: Reichstag Brandenburger Tiergarten: our very own. And Wannsee! air tinged by earth tree lake, sky starred dark. A...
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Primary Berlin
My dear friend Rosemary began a photo series called Primary New York: Manhattan in reds, yellows, and blues. Here's my effort from across the pond. (Try it, wherever you are! You'll start seeing your...
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Primary Berlin continued...
M10 Streetcar, on my way to the vet with Leopold.They really do use Legos to build their houses here. Old man and my shopping bag.
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Primary Berlin never ends...
The moon over the Spree Canal Thursday night... Berlin = tagger's paradise(Not so) haute wedding couture on Chausseestrasse
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Primary Berlin again...
Hot summer fountain fun.Radiohead heading your way.Some kind of pretty, dangly flower, Schönhauser Allee.
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Some days...
Some days Chronic Fatigue feels like this: Other days it feels like this: Many days it feels like this:And every day it feels like this:(Oops, that's Campbell's!)
View ArticleLa Fin
Nearly a decade past, I moved to Berlin... without quite meaning to.My slide into this city was among the happiest times I have known. Freshly hatched, wide as the sky, my heart loving and breaking, in...
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