by Johann Aeschlimann | May 6, 2022 | letters
Sunday May 1, Treptow Park, East Berlin, Soviet Memorial honoring the victory of the Red Army over Hitler-Germany. Not so many visitors. A Swiss family, on bicycles, gets an explanation. Hitler was like Putin, but different, declares the father in the vernacular of...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Mar 8, 2021 | letters
Johann Aeschlimann (70) has discovered gardening, and he writes this blog. He turned 70 years old last Saturday. Johann, why is the blog silent for quite a time now? I was a little busy. But now, I am making a new start. See, a blog is like a diary. It is only a few...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Oct 30, 2020 | letters
Okay, I was not in the center of it all. Secondly, because the bleachers and the front of the lectern were long occupied when I arrived at International Airport in Sanford/FL, two hours before the start of the event. First, because I cannot afford to be an idiot when...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Jun 23, 2020 | letters
Sable Makonnen (62) came to the United States in the late seventies as an immigrant from Ethiopia. After losing her job in New York, she is about to move back to the D.C. area. She is moved to tears about what happens to America and she participated in a Black Lives...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Jun 7, 2020 | letters
Mary Regan (60) is an English teacher at the United Nations in New York City. After two months, she is back at her Manhattan apartment. Hi Mary, what’s going on in your neck of the woods? Today, I went to the UN for the first time in three months, my computer...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Mar 25, 2020 | letters
Girls, You both live in countries governed by idiots and populated by an above-average number of crazies. This means that you have to rely on your own wits in the current corona situation. KEEP YOUR DISTANCE FROM OTHER PEOPLE AND WASH YOUR HANDS. Thank you for asking...
