Book Trailer for The Angel of Berlin & Explanation of A Modern Fairy-Tale

As told in previous posts prior to its release, The Angel of Berlin, is a story I wrote based entirely on a dream. I have the curse/blessing of often dreaming in vivid detail, extended version, where I can even awake, get up, walk around with memory and then go back to sleep and continue the […]

Photos: Cooling At Müggelsee & Cuba in Berlin

When it’s hotter in Berlin than it’s been all year. When you’ve worked long and hard at more than one job and there’s still more to do. When certain aspects of bureaucratic non-sense at the university adminstration office  plus the subjectivity of empowered online know-it-alls makes you just want to laugh at the sheer absurdity […]

Photos:Volkspark Friedrichshain-Berlin: A Summer Evening

It was special, better, more difficult and more exhilarating to practice QiGong in the air open, under the sky, with voices all around, insects making their curious dances in the air. We met at Volkspark in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, at the Platz der Vereinten Nationen. Afterwards, we lay in the grass, talking and […]

“Saturday, In the Park…” It Was Almost the 4th of July

(This is one of my favorite posters ever. It’s definitely eye-catching as you endeavor to figure out what it is advertising exactly…) The title of this piece comes from the American band, Chicago, and their song “Saturday in the Park” which came out in my birth year: 1972. Today Berlin was hot, hotter than it’d […]

Photos from Berlin & Scenes from “The Agony of Joy”

Winner of the 2013 Global Ebook Award for Best LGBT Novel. Background about the novel: The partially finished manuscript of “The Agony of Joy” had been “on pause” on my computer, in a folder within a folder. I do that occasionally when I have a story or idea I’m still meditating on, yet don’t want […]