Felix lost his best friend ( Read more... )

For a couple of years now, my parents have been taking a holiday trip to Berlin in December - my mother loves the Christmas markets, my dad the general bustle of the capital. So this has become a bit of a family tradition ( Read more... )

It was impossible to genuinely imagine a world without grandma, until that world became a reality ( Read more... )

( Möglicherweise verstörendes Gebrabbel über den Flugzeugabsturz. Und über Selbstmord. Lesen auf eigene Gefahr. )

Sir Terry Pratchett wasn't the writer who taught me to love stories (that was Astrid Lindgren). He wasn't the one who made me love fantastic worlds (that was Michael Ende). He wasn't the one who made me love the workings of language (that was J.R.R.Tolkien). But, in writing his immensely entertaining, insightful and brilliant Discworld books, he ( Read more... )

We just buried my mother-in-law's cat, Garfield ( Read more... )