With warmer temperature currently being experienced, only in the single digits and rain intermittently washing away the snow, Scharmützelsee is slowly returning to its totally liquid state, but I was fortunate to arrive the day before the weather changed. I was lucky to be able to take more photos of the ice, before it changed. […]
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In Painful Winter Cold, Remembering Summer in Photos
Here in Berlin, day-time temperatures are around -10°C, and it is, of course, going to get colder and more snow is on the way, though the past few days have featured cloudless, crisp blue skies. So I thought I’d do a photo memory of summer in Germany, mostly Berlin…but throughout the region as well. I […]
The Story of a Bullied Gay Teen: “They Said I Was Weak”
“One day when my dad said he wanted to play me a song I hadn’t heard in a long time, that I used to like so well, I was excited, wondering what it would be. But as soon as I heard the first notes, it was like someone punched me in the stomach. Tears filled […]
Poem: An Apology of a Kind
You didn’t call like you said you would, and I thought it wouldn’t bother me but it did. Time and again you said you loved me, that just thinking of me kept you from dying inside, for the world around you was already dead. And I loved you, too, yet it gave me a special […]
Poem: Old Woman
Old Woman I used to run the green fields with my dogs, but that was long ago, and I am a girl no more. I used to smile when the warriors rode by and hide my eyes with my hair, but now I am a girl no more. I danced the round dance with my […]
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