And so it begins. It is perhaps not surprising that I, a somewhat logorrheic blogger in my off-hours, would find a way to get my children to write a journal before they even know how to write. But I’ve been fairly pleased with the results so far. We’re tucked away in the Baltic Sea coastal …
Author Archives: Nathan
Berlin Dispatch: Booyah, Bin Laden
I did make it to Berlin (thanks to Marlena, Carly and others for the fine travel tips) and woke up early this morning to get some work done before the kids come downstairs demanding quark and schinken. I got up, it turns out, just as news was breaking across the ocean that Osama bin Laden …
Short Kids, Long Flight
Actually, it’s not just a flight. Due to the vicissitudes of the global economy and our resulting (and oddly unshakable) penury, the best and cheapest way to transport the family from New York to northern Germany, where we will spend some vacation days relaxing with old friends in Vorpommerania, is this: flight from New York …
Playground Juarez
“Mexicans were aware that when they talked about children, they tended to talk about nonsense.” –Roberto Bolaño, 2666 There is plenty left to say about the trip I just finished to Juarez and the Texas borderlands (yes, I’m back home). In large part, I suppose, most of the information will come out in the pages …