In early October I landed in the hospital after slipping on the sidewalk and breaking my leg. Apparently, as reported to me by the two gentlemen sitting outside at the café next door to where I fell, I slid and

One of the things that I love most about my life in Berlin is sitting on my balcony. So I sit here tonight wrapped in an old black coat that my nephew Sam once told me looked like the fur of a teddy bear. I feel warm and...