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Have a blessed Easter…
Read more: Have a blessed Easter……and stay out of the snow. As Catholics the world over are preparing for Good Friday, a fresh layer of snow has blanketed the streets of Munich in a winter that refuses to end. If you are celebrating Easter this weekend, I wish you that the warmth in your hearts may melt the ice away…
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What’s up with the German labor market?
Read more: What’s up with the German labor market?News and interesting statistics about Europe’s strongest economy. As most of Southern and Eastern Europe as well as Great Britain struggle with a double-dip recession and the German economy continues to flourish, many in the beleaguered EU states are packing their bags for the Bundesrepublik. According to Spiegel Online, half a million people immigrated to Germany…
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My Dad’s gone digital
Read more: My Dad’s gone digitalHow the technology we take for granted can leave our parents clueless. It was always a mystery to me how my Dad managed to be the CEO of a large construction company right up to the turn of the 21st century while being completely computer-illiterate. Don’t get me wrong, he wasn’t just impartial to computers…
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St. Patrick’s Day 2013
Read more: St. Patrick’s Day 2013Shamrock, flutes and black bier on the streets of Munich. Forget for a second that it’s a frigid mid-March afternoon. Try to ignore the whizzing wind too, although your nose feels like it might fall off any minute now. The sun has slashed its way through the ceiling of aubergine-colored clouds, and – perhaps even…
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Lincoln. A film
Read more: Lincoln. A filmI have to hand it to Spielberg. At least he stayed away from grandiose productions this time. And, to his credit, he managed to steer clear of the usual pitfalls: the temptation of that eye-watering Messianism so often associated with U.S historical events, flamboyant speeches about democracy and world-saving feats. The movie deals with abolitionism.…
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Smoking is SOOO uncool
Read more: Smoking is SOOO uncoolI don’t know if this most recent Marlboro campaign is running under the same slogan in other countries as well, but the line they use in Germany is ‘Don’t be a maybe’. (” A maybe never falls in love”, “A maybe never found a way”, “A maybe never made history”, bla bla bla.) What they’re…
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Süle
Read more: SüleWe met at a kindergarten in Munich, during our sons’ ‘Eingewöhnung‘. You see, in Germany, they care about children’s feelings. You don’t just park them in daycare cold turkey and risk hard feelings of abandonment and loss. You get them acquainted to a new routine first. You introduce them to their new caregivers. Slowly. Slowly.…
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Set me free…
Read more: Set me free…What do you know, I have an addiction. And it’s called the Internet. It’s kind of strange, because I have never had an addiction before. Now I can truly understand the mixture of pleasure and disgust addicts are talking about. I realize it’s stupid and consuming, and yet I indulge in it, allowing myself to…
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Life
Read more: LifeIf you are reading this, I have a question for you: Why are you online? What do you hope to find here? Do you feel alive? What are we all doing here? What are we searching for? Entertainment, knowledge, inspiration, communication? Is it not becoming a terrible waste of time? And time, after all, is…
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Sandy Hook Elementary
Read more: Sandy Hook ElementaryThere is evil in the world. The devil walks among us. The government cannot control the minds of its citizens, some of which are obviously deranged. But the government can and should control the means they can use to commit gruesome acts of violence. Senseless mayhem of these proportions is only possible with powerful guns.…
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Life in plastic, it’s fantastic…
Read more: Life in plastic, it’s fantastic…Is all this packaging really necessary? I ask myself that every time I go shopping. It gets on my nerves. I buy groceries and then spend half a day separating waste. Waste that I neither asked for nor need. Plastic, paper, aluminum foil, the works. Dozens of euros’ worth of useless packaging which most of…
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Advent, advent…
Read more: Advent, advent…Just when I was running out of ideas for posts, my son (not yet 6 years old) found out there is no Santa Claus. Their kindergarten teacher told them. Maybe the increasing commercialization of Christmas finally got to her, or maybe she was trying to explain the local traditions despite the onslaught of American popular…
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