I dated a German guy when I was living in Geneva last summer, and a friend of his from high school came to visit for a week. The friend, we’ll call him “Franz,” still lived in a small town in Germany and was a bit more provincial and traditional than the guy I was [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Sex and the City
31 March 2008
Crappy Times
27 March 2008
Without knowing what we were getting into, a friend and I went to see the Austin Lounge Lizards show at the Barns at Wolf Trap. I have back-burner plans to become a country music singer, and my friend saw “country” and “western” in the description and suggested we go. So we [...]
The Hard Work of Getting Along
25 March 2008
There’s a Christian bookstore in Washington, DC called the Potter’s House. I’ve gone there a few times recently and I find it quite an amazing place. It feels all at once like a library, a lunch counter and a soup kitchen. The front corner of the shop is crammed [...]
R.I.P. Mr. Lincoln
23 March 2008
I just finished Gore Vidal’s “Lincoln.” Among other things, Vidal writes fantastic historical fictions and this is one of his best. While a couple of characters are fictionalized, the history is good and Lincoln isn’t tinkered with. The picture we get is so real and so personal, that the president’s death at the end of [...]
O My America!
23 March 2008
When I was twenty years old, I spent 3 months in Italy as an au pair. It was the first time I’d lived in another country for any period of time, and for the first few weeks I was lonely and alienated. My Italian was broken, I of course had no friends, and [...]
