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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts.If you think about it we are all a product of so many variables, not the least of which is environment. Somehow we all intrinsically know this, but are so often distracted and obtuse as to [...]

The first couple of months I spent here in Germany fairly dashed some of my perceptions of both the people and the essence of the place. I expect this is true for most visitors, and certainly my “American” sense of old world charm was slightly skewed by not so much disinformation as being [...]