Prose and Passion

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 29. Last year I discovered this lovely mother and daughters among our piles of family phot...

It's three years since some political leaders learned about exponentials and we all started the journey of discovering the lockdowns, c...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 28. Hedwig Geppert ( the milkmaid in this entry ) worked on various farms in Silesia duri...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 27. here we have Hedwig Scholz again, matron of the household with three Hedwigs (her hus...

We are officially in the decade of ecosystem restoration and the top predators of a given ecosystem obviously have a role to play in that. H...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 26. Aunt Therese, who appears in the photos below, is semi-mysterious because we know wh...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 25. We have seen the three daughters from the bakery Adam Eberle at Lorsch as children he...

Four months into the adventure sparked by my aunt's ancient violin , I feel I'm ready to use more interesting fingerings than the 1-...

Plague Year(s) Bach Project, 3-year anniversary Three years after starting the Plague Year Bach Project , I'm not convinced that the ...

Flamingos are eternal favourites of visitors in zoos everywhere and have been held in captivity for centuries. Surprisingly, it still isn...

The February issue of C & I contains two deep-sea related items from me, namely my feature on the likely beginning of commercial seafloo...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 24. Frieda the pianist was born 1902 and thus grew up just before people had their own c...