Have I mentioned that I have a little international Abenteuer planned? Yep, I’ll be heading to Norway for a two-month research stay this spring! Even though the major point of my time there will be work (must hand in dissertation by, cough cough, next year), I am over-the-moon-excited! I’ll be based in Oslo with a side trip …
Category: Europe
A Weekend in Weimar
I’m off this weekend to one of my favorite German cities ever to celebrate a friend’s wedding! So much cultural and artistic history going on in Weimar — once the home of Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, Liszt, Kandinksky, Klee, and the list goes on and on. I just love that mix of classical German culture and …
I promise, I’m still here
I have been teaching college freshmen since the beginning of September, which has everything to do with the abandoned state of this blog since then. What a tremendous amount of work, as all you instructors/professors/teachers know, even when you have a relatively set curriculum. I’ve been doing pretty much nothing else other than working and …
A taste of paradise
I’m back from a *fantastic* sunny vacation on the island of Tenerife, and I can’t wait to share all the details with you! But I am nowhere even near to being done sorting through our photos — so in the meantime, here’s a sneak peek at what we spent most of our time doing: hiking …