by Johann Aeschlimann | Jan 18, 2026 | Swiss
These words are not to be written within the jurisdiction of the Emmental-Oberaargau regional court in the Swiss canton of Bern: «If LBGTQI people will be disinterred after 200 years, all you can find from the skeletons are men and women, everything else is a mental...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Dec 12, 2025 | America, Swiss
Marc Jorns has a small manufacturing business in the Swiss town of Lotzwil (pop. 2800). Employing 75 co-workers, Jorns AG makes sheet-metal bending machines used in construction. 85 percent of the product is exported world-wide, almost a third to the United States....
by Johann Aeschlimann | Dec 6, 2025 | articles
I have played Santa for generations of kids and 6 December always is a sweet trip down memory lane. I remember the one-word-answer one little girl gave when asked about her favorite food: «Wuuuscht». This means «sausage» in Swiss German. Imagine a tot of today talking...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Nov 27, 2025 | letters
Hi my American friends, happy Thanksgiving! Today is one day I truly regret not to be in the US of A, because you have Thanksgiving, the greatest of all holidays known to mankind. Soon you will stuff the bird and put it in the oven, you will toss your ricidulous...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Aug 21, 2025 | letters
I went coast to coast, from Baltimore/Maryland to San Francisco/California. Was looking around a bit, talking to some folks, taking note of “the media” and enjoying the greatness of the place. The upshot of it all, as seen through a personal lens and...
