The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

How strange it is, the extent to which one’s thoughts depend on geography and circumstance. In theory, one could pause and take stock of o...

Sometimes when I travel, the things that are striking are the absences compared with my home (adopted, in this case). America is very much t...

-If you want to see how long-lived civic effects can operate, just compare Mannheim and Heidelberg. Both have quite famous universities. One...

-I never tire while in foreign countries of seeing the subtle differences in appearance of people. German men often have a certain demeanor ...

There comes a point in one’s life where one surrenders to the lure of the practical, rather than the romantic. Bit by bit, the arguments fo...

It recently occurred to me that I have a very poor memory, but not in the standard way that people suspect. By most metrics, I rememb...

-Similar to when I went bungee jumping, the first sensation of jumping and free-falling was somewhat overwhelming, in the sense that my brai...

You know how sometimes you just don't seem to have any anything to contribute? I mean, I'd seen these billboards about ' No Kill...

The massive fire engine drove past me down the narrow street, sirens wailing, and turned down towards the parking lot next to the beach. ...

From 30,000 feet in the air, the early evening displays a curious inversion of light. The ground beneath me is a dark purplish grey. I somet...