Berlin is in a state of constant change; some streets are barely recognizable from one year to the next. Every gap is being filled, scaffolding and cranes stretch into the air, construction activity is everywhere.
Yet, there are places in Berlin where time stands still—likely because building regulations prohibit or complicate new developments.
One such place is Lübars, that West Berlin…
THE CARE & FEEDING OF YOU. FINAL TALE FROM THE NURSING HOME By Karen Strickholm 03/21/2026 Critical Illness can turn one into a human potato! Drugs. Pain. Fatigue. Low stimulation. Low movement. Activities? We do have a weekly visit from … Continue reading →
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THAT NDE, NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE & ME By Karen Strickholm 03/24/2025 Have you heard about NDEs? It means Near Death Experience, in which a person experiences “the other side” in some capacity. Prior to my unfortunate incarceration in Ye Olde … Continue reading →
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Diné Culture YÁ’ÁT’ÉÉH, PEOPLE. By Karen Strickholm 12/18/2025 Navajo culture – aka Diné – is rich, sophisticated, robust, ancient. As a lily-white woman from northern New Jersey, this nursing home, with its many Navajo employees from the nearby reservation, is … Continue reading →
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MEDICAL CRASH AND BURN CHAPTER THREE By Karen Strickholm 07/30/2025 Sometimes life moves in dizzying, impossible-to-predict zigzag lines. Turns out, healing unfolds in much the same way.. Before my medical crash and burn, I thought I had everything set up … Continue reading →
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Emotional Support Chickens, Theft! Cluck Yeah, A NURSING HOME TALE By Karen Strickholm 09/26/2024 Sweeping the knitting world! Tens of thousands of “emotional support chickens” are flying off knitters’ needles, bringing inordinate joy to recipients. Here’s a tale about one … Continue reading →
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MATT & ANTHONY. A NURSING HOME TALE By Karen Strickholm 08/29/2024 Welcome to this re-imagined communique, designed to update, entertain and inform you monthly! Find tales from the inside – funny, moving, shocking, thought-provoking. Also, tips on navigatiing America’s long … Continue reading →
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MARIA & WHY, A NURSING HOME TALE By Karen Strickholm 12/06/2024 Today, I will tell you the tale of Maria. But first, a quick word about these missives. Why do I write them? Mainly, I want to share with you … Continue reading →
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❤️⚕️❤️ STILL HERE! ❤️⚕️❤️ A NURSING HOME TALE By Karen Strickholm 09/28/2023 Greetings, my people! It’s been a beat since you’ve heard from me – more than two years, in fact. During this time, I’ve been dancing a do-si-do with … Continue reading →
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THE NURSING HOME CONFESSIONAL, A NURSING HOME TALE By Karen Strickholm 05/01/2025 THE NURSING HOME CONFESSIONAL Here is a powerful nursing home story I will never, ever forget. Please allow me to set the stage for you… Day-to-day nursing home … Continue reading →
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Dying… Or Not, How People Die. Better Days By Karen Strickholm 22/02/2021 Fall 2020 through 2021 – Long Covid, coupled with more severe endocrine/TBI symptoms, grinds on – An addled brain, micro-seizures, double vision, loss of bowel control, severe headache, … Continue reading →
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Long Covid-19 Made It Through! A Bed In Roswell 2020-10-18 By Karen Strickholm Fall 2020 through 2021 – Long Covid, coupled with more severe endocrine/TBI symptoms, grinds on – An addled brain, micro-seizures, double vision, loss of bowel control, severe … Continue reading →
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El Paso Covid-19 Quarantine Death On The Ward – 2020-08-25 By Karen Strickholm August 2020 – “Contracted Covid-19. Bad. Sent to isolation COVID ward in El Paso (Texas) hospital, during that city’s peak pandemic moment – you may remember it … Continue reading →
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Karen Strickholm: A Will To Live When Health Issues Take Everything Until 6 April 2026, Karen Strickholm was living, knitting and sometimes writing from a place no one wants to be, but about 25 percent of us will wind up: … Continue reading →
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Karen Strickholm: A Posthumous Autobiography Of A Brave Woman, Part 1 Billions have lived and died on this Earth, most leaving nothing more behind of themselves than bones or ash. Maybe there’s a birth announcement, then an obituary. Maybe there’s … Continue reading →
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On Tuesday, federal judges blocked an attempt by Alabama Republicans to eliminate a heavily Black congressional district, and GOP politicians in South Carolina opted not to eliminate longtime Representative James Clyburn’s district. But those decisions don’t diminish what’s happened over the last few weeks: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling, Southern Republicans have…
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Books That Killed Their Authors On 5 June 1851, the first of 40 installments of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” were published in the abolitionist weekly newspaper The National Era. Originally subtitled … Continue reading →
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The real horror movie, writes Meg Elison, is the one you grew up in.
Continue reading Review: Hokum at The Wild Hunt.
"There's no reason why the simple shapes of a story can't be fed into computers."
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Nova3D generates Blender construction scripts and structured GLBs with named parts. That makes it one of the more promising AI 3D ideas I have seen lately.
Though many may associate the 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' author with her peacock farm in Milledgeville, celebrated Southern writer Flannery O'Connor began life in Savannah, GA. The townhome in which she spent her childhood is located on a quiet Charlton Street, shaded by live oak, looking over picturesque Lafayette Square, and facing the stunningly gothic revival Cathedral Basilica of St. John…
What’s on your mind at the start of this month? Maybe you’re asking big questions about technology or have the state of the nation on your mind. You could be in search of a thrilling, escapist tale set in another time and place or are looking to explore everyday life far from where you live. […]
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Molly Green & James Leffler have also been registered as the writers for 9x18: Hearts and Flowers.
🚨 The writers for 9x17: I Got You Babe are Christopher Monfette & Taylor Wong.
This is their third episode together this season after
Christopher has written Día de los Muertos, Monsters, Eddie Begins, and Triggers.
This is also Taylor’s 14th episode written.
The past decade saw the Left fail to make major policy gains despite massive protest waves. Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics explains why. (Kevin Mazur / Getty Images)
Review of _Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without…
This small West Yorkshire farmhouse was built some time before 1567, and initially consisted of a single farm (known as Withens Farm) before being expanded into three farms known as Top, Middle, and Bottom Withens in 1591. Centuries later, the farm was still in use in the 1840s when Yorkshire native Emily Brontë wrote her novel "Wuthering Heights", initially published under the pseudonym Ellis…
9x14: D.I.Y writers have been credited as Lyndsey Beaulieu and Silas Savard. Their episodes are below. Top screenshot is Silas’s episodes.
Expect no great man of letters to emerge from the bloodied fields of Iran.
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Tucked into the quiet cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia, overlooking the Tuscan coastline, lies the grave of Italo Calvino—an author whose imagination ranged far beyond the visible world. Unlike monumental tombs dedicated to literary giants, Calvino’s resting place is strikingly modest, almost deliberately so, echoing his lifelong resistance to grandiosity and rigid labels.
Calvino spent…
Eric Arthur Blair, who would later become known to the world as the political writer George Orwell, was born to a "lower-upper-middle class" English family not in England, but on the other side of the world in Motihari, India in 1903. His father was working as an opium agent in the British Indian civil service, in charge of the lucrative and now illegal drug that was exported to China. His…