Prose and Passion

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 21. Anna Kauer, the middle one of the five daughters of the station master of Adamsweile...

Ecosystems are complex networks of interactions that can collapse when things go wrong. Researchers now have the options to study ecosystem ...

Plague Year(s) Bach Project, update I am beginning to notice that my Bach practice is becoming a meditation exercise more than a learning...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 20. We've met Ernst Leopold the steel worker as well as his mother, Auguste Adschuc...

Two years ago, I was wondering why views of my blog had shot up by an order of magnitude in December (2020) and stayed high in the new year ...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 19. Of the ca. 15 children coming out of the East Prussian patchwork family , we have se...

This year, there are 8 billion humans alive on the planet, and very soon there will be more people in India than in China. As I am old enoug...

Two months into the experience of learning to play my aunt's ancient violin I am tempted to say: If I had known that it was so easy, I ...

Here's my round-up of German pieces September 2022 through January 2023, with serious features on donkeys, Neanderthals and anosmia, as ...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 18. When I wrote about the war-time household where three grown-up women all went by the...

It is getting harder to retain any sense of optimism, but here I'll round up some very tiny personal pleasures and successes from the ye...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 17. When the three children from the bakery in Dörndorf (Silesia) grew up, Hedwig the m...