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Start a Blog. Here's Why
Yes, I started a blog sooner than I had expected and I love it. It's a very specific niche-type blog, but I try to broaden the posts a bit. It's much easier to blog than I had ever imagined it would be. I pictured a steep learning curve, but ...
ologsinquito, on 10/10/2013
Bubblews - The Speak Freely Writing Platform
It's presumably a perennial thing for those growing up in the shadow of it. I wonder if you get to the point where it's so familiar that it no longer has the power to move you? Or if it ever did, for those born within its sight?
Ah! I see. I ...
JoHarrington, on 10/10/2013
Bubblews - The Speak Freely Writing Platform
I can believe the grating between the townsfolk of Oświęcim and the museum. I visited Buchenwald a decade ago and had the same feeling - they hated that it was a tourist destination but it was also, to me and my friend at least, a place of ...
Guest, on 10/10/2013
Bubblews - The Speak Freely Writing Platform
Our driver told us that there's been some antagonism between the people in the town and the museum. The former don't like how their place-name has become synonymous with a death camp. But on the other hand, the proximity brings a lot of ...
JoHarrington, on 10/10/2013
Visiting Auschwitz: Twenty Years After Writing my Dissertation About It
Shonna - So mote it be.
Ember - I would most certainly come back with you.
Rupert - Anne Frank's house is somewhere I'd like to visit too. Though I should imagine that it would be as upsetting for me as you found it to be. There you would ...
JoHarrington, on 10/10/2013
Visiting Auschwitz: Twenty Years After Writing my Dissertation About It
Mike - Thank you for your empathy. I wanted to tell it as truthfully as possible, because if it took me that way, with all that I'd studied, it might explain how others could feel that way too.
Children and the elderly are generally the first ...
JoHarrington, on 10/10/2013
The Paper Trap: A nightmare for you and your business
Thank you Emma. Appreciate you nice words.
JohnnyKnox, on 10/10/2013
Cool crazy and funny coffee mugs make great gifts
I have a collection of giant teacups and overly large mugs. I'm a Brit, therefore I drink tea. Char. Stand your spoon up in it strength. Lead in your pencil style brew. My favorite mug is a beer tankard design of pot complete with the dimples ...
Guest, on 10/10/2013
Bubblews - The Speak Freely Writing Platform
Works customer. As far as I know not a survivor though we did meet several at the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles a few years ago.
Redemption was confirmed an hour ago as being in progress though the latest scuttlebutt suggests not mentioning ...
Guest, on 10/10/2013
Visiting Auschwitz: Twenty Years After Writing my Dissertation About It
I chickened out. I visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam with one of my sons and bawled my eyes out. Some years later, I was in Munich with the same son and suggested a visit to Dachau. "No Dad," he said, "After what happened in Amsterdam I ...
RupertTaylor, on 10/10/2013
Visiting Auschwitz: Twenty Years After Writing my Dissertation About It
Thank you for sharing your experience. I'd like to go someday, I still honestly can't imagine what it will be like.
Ember, on 10/10/2013
Cool crazy and funny coffee mugs make great gifts
I like the Mason jar idea. My teenage daughter drinks her coffee from a Mason jar.
ologsinquito, on 10/10/2013
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Tolkien will stay forever in world literature for creation of Lord of the Rings but if I remember correctly this project started as a sort of experiment - how long can be a story to keep the suspense from the beginning to the end. After a while ...
Tolovaj, on 10/10/2013
Visiting Auschwitz: Twenty Years After Writing my Dissertation About It
May they sleep sweet, cariad.
Shonna, on 10/10/2013
Visiting Auschwitz: Twenty Years After Writing my Dissertation About It
Hey Jo, I suffered along with you as I read your insightful words. Had me thinking about all the peoples that have reportedly died in poison gas attacks where the leader of Syria murdered women, children, and the elderly.
Your bit about, Could a ...
teddletonmr, on 10/10/2013