by Johann Aeschlimann | Nov 24, 2024 | letters
Hi there, I hope you are doing as well as we do. We just had an enormous blast of early snow, a foot or so in the lowlands. Behind the house, the kids are sledding like crazy, constantly chaperoned by worried housewives and their spouses (when I was young, fathers and...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Oct 29, 2024 | letters
While writing this, I am watching the game. World Series, game 3, the Dodgers at Yankee stadium. Unbelievable: Freddie Freeman hits his third homer in the third game. This will be good. *** In Detroit, one of the election issues is the Arab vote. There are about...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Oct 28, 2024 | letters
Ten days before the polls will close, millions of Americans have already voted by mail. Contrary to the odd conservative hullabaloo about the evils of early voting four years ago, the practice is gaining ground here in strides. In some states a majority of ballots...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Oct 25, 2024 | letters
I write from the Harbor Inn in Philipsburg PA (pop. 2770). First thing I saw when coming into the room last night was two roaches in the sink. So, the toothbrush stayed in the bag (the “Kulturbeutel” as the Germans call it). The American motel is not what it used to...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Apr 30, 2024 | letters
Hi L and P, You know what happened. Plan B – biking to the Rhine on Monday, train to Switzerland on Tuesday – was thwarted when I learned that the seemingly eternal German railway strike would resume on Tuesday. I had to reschedule the train leg for Monday which was a...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Apr 30, 2024 | letters
Dear L and P, From Philippsthal I set out for Fulda, then along the Kinzig river and toward Frankfurt, all bikepathed and bike-routed, even well marked (Bike markers are green-on-white in Germany, sometimes very well and sometimes rather shoddily placed). Before...
