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Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead
Ender's Game , by Orson Scott Card (Tor, New York, 1991) Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (Tor, New York, 1991)...
sursumcorda, 19 July 2010 |
Swiss Baby Adventure: Joseph's Birth Story
We interrupt the writing of my review of Ender's Game to alert you to the fact that Janet has now posted Joseph's birth story . ...
Joseph Andreas Stücklin’s Birth Story
Warning: This is a long post. Here’s the short version: It was long. It hurt. Joseph was born. ...
Unmagical Magic
As I've said before , Isaac Asimov has long been one of my favorite authors, from science fiction (of course) to science fact to...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Spit in Your Face
The title isn't quite true, but it gets past the censors. Joseph is the non-spitting-est baby I've ever met. I never...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Adjustments, Part 3 - Trash &...
I like the trash collection system here in Basel: You buy special blue garbage bags, each 35 liters in size (about 9 gallons),...
Stained Glass Elegies
Stained Glass Elegies: Stories by Shusaku Endo translated by Van C. Gessel (Tuttle Publishing, Tokyo, 1986) When Basel...
Swiss Baby Adventure: It's HOT!
Temperatures in the mid-90's do not surprise me in July: I live in Florida. I'll confess I was hoping for something more...
In Tune with the World
In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity by Josef Pieper, translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston (St....
New Year's Resolution #7 - Talk Less, Listen More
(This is not the resolution I thought I'd be adding this month, but as authors often say about the characters in their novels, my...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Life in the City
My original impression of Basel as a quiet place has been irrevocably shattered now that I'm here in the summer instead of the...
Pictures
More pictures here . You’ll need a login: it’s a popular TV series about six adults in an apartment and the...
Found His Thumb
Joseph is eating like crazy (which is great because I have a lot of milk for him) and starting to plump up. Today he found his...
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Grandma: "It's afternoon where you are, but it's nearly bedtime here in Switzerland." Noah: "What...
Joseph Andreas Stücklin
There's new life for this blog! For an introduction and photo see this blog post by my wonderfully supportive husband.
Last Belly Photos
Here I am, 8 days before my due date at my sister-in-law's wedding. What a great celebration! Little did I know that the...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Fruitful Moments
I left the new family to their own devices on Saturday morning, when Stephan's mom whisked me away for an adventure. There is a...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Welcome, Joseph Andreas Stücklin!
Janet and Stephan are the proud parents of Joseph Andreas Stücklin , born at home in Basel, Switzerland on June 28, 2010, at...
Firefox Pages All Blank
On Sunday, Firefox suddenly stopped working on my computer. It would open all right, but no matter what URL I used it would only...
Lame, Mr. Asimov, Really Lame
The day I arrived in Basel on this trip, I felt in need of some "chill-out" reading that wouldn't tax my jet-lagged brain cells. ...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Adjustments, Part 2 - Diapers
To repeat, from Part 1 , lest I forget: The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Adjustments, Part 1 - Laundry
The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing funny because it is foreign; the second is...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Victories
The trouble with having a handicap not shared by most people is that no one appreciates it when you have a major victory. If...
Swiss Baby Adventure, Days 3 - 6: Settling In
Stephan returned from a business trip, and graciously spent what few minutes he had free to install a new system that not only...
Swiss Baby Adventure, Days 0 - 2: Getting There
I know, I know, I have many more adventures to write up, but I'm starting with this one, as I think it will be more interesting to most...