Steffi and Trina spent the academic year 1970-1971 with me in Burlington at an apartment at 43 South Winooski Avenue, within walking distance of the UVM campus. Read the rest of this entry »

One of my colleagues at Lake Region Union High School was young Howard Frank Mosher, Read the rest of this entry »

Steffi, the baby, and I docked in New York on July 1st, 1967, almost exactly 21 years after my first arrival in New York as an eleven-year old after the war. Read the rest of this entry »

I met Steffi Heuss in February 1965 at a party thrown by one of the younger members of the Bismarck family studying in Berlin, to which I was invited through my Baltic connections. Read the rest of this entry »

In late April 1962 Tempy welcomed me back to Heidelberg sporting a beard – one that soon came off when he realized I had not followed through on my own resolution to grow a beard after New Orleans. Read the rest of this entry »

The year-and-a-half that I spent in America between September 1960 and April 1962, when I again departed for Germany, this time for more than five years, marked in retrospect my last attempt to pursue a half-way normal career path. Read the rest of this entry »

In Los Angeles I rented a house with three other young men at 1109 Longwood Avenue and set about establishing a small business office for Baldridge Reading Services (BRS) in a spanking new office building on Wilshire Boulevard. Read the rest of this entry »

Returning to the farm in Canaan for the summer after graduation from college in June 1956 was not my preferred choice. Read the rest of this entry »

St. Paul’s School was quite difficult at first because of the language adjustment. Read the rest of this entry »

The first American relative who showed up at the Elmhof after the war (and the only one I can remember, although there were others) was Mama’s first cousin, Army Captain Grenville Emmet (1909-1989). Read the rest of this entry »