so now it’s 2011. i began this blog two years ago, after emerging from a pitch-black tunnel into 2009, & one year ago i satRead More
Category: life
this morning it began snowing again, so heavily that within an hour everything was white once more and people’s footsteps disappeared quickly. the cars areRead More
it’s snowing really heavily; andy won’t be happy, as today we’re driving to frankfurt, but i can’t help but be excited by snow’s magic. i’mRead More
i grew up in dunedin, near the bottom of new zealand’s south island. it gets pretty cold there, at least it feels it, because untilRead More
i’ve returned to münchen after just over 3 weeks in the uk. in my absence the trees have shed nearly all of their leaves, revealingRead More
this afternoon i emptied out the bottom drawer of my filing cabinet, & consigned about a third of the contents to the recycling bin. iRead More
i love coming home. i love it when the plane sinks below the clouds & the familiar coastline appears, the kaikouras glistening white to theRead More
providence was great; once my lecture at brown university was done, i had no obligations other than to relax, so that was exactly what iRead More
today is my last day in europe; tomorrow i leave for new york, beginning my return homeward. today i bought another suitcase – a smallRead More
perhaps i dreamt it, but at some point in the last 6 weeks i had the strongest feeling that i was in belgrade. we wereRead More