Looking back…<br>Sally, <br> Texas, USA
LEBEN Looking back… First of all, I can’t believe I am seventy-two and wonder what has happened to all the years since I was fifty. In fact, I have wasted them. My husband died in 2001 and since then I have nothing to show for my life. It upsets me, but there you are. I […]
The chance that was my destiny <br>Harald Christian <br>Tbilisi, Georgia
LEBEN The chance that was my destiny. A little more than 20 years ago I met 3 girls on the same weekend, with 2 of them I had sex and with the third “only” coffee. One of them contacted me after 2 months in Spain, where I lived at that time and congratulated me by SMS […]
Chasing the Linear Life Plan, <br> Gary <br> Denver, USA Part 1
WORK+LIFE I haven’t hit 80 yet, but I’m sneaking up on it- I’ll be 78 in a couple of months. I think that’s close enough to be qualified to provide some insight. For starters, my first 78 years are exactly like yours in one respect – it has been an ongoing series of choices and […]
There is nothing more unbelievable, than the truth. <br> Dieter <br>Trimbach <br> Switzerland
LEBEN There is nothing more unbelievable than the truth. There was once a young Swiss man, born in 1962 in the farthest province. Childhood and youth took place within the normal bounds of our region. Lower middle class, father employed as a painter, mother was a housewife. I had tried unsuccessfully to get my high school […]
Some call them wrinkles but to me they are laugh lines. <br>James <br> British-Columbia, Canada
LIFE Some people call them wrinkles but to me they are laugh lines… I am the son of a Hungarian immigrant. My father came over to Canada in the 1956 failed Hungarian revolution. I’m the middle child of 5 children. My wife, Heidi, is the oldest of two children from divorced parents. She also has […]
Keep healing… it looks good on you! <br> Paballo <br> Jo’burg, South Africa
LEBEN Keep healing… it looks good on you! Gee, having unprotected sex with the wrong guy led me to contract HIV and being stuck with the consequence of taking a pill my whole life for almost 5 years now. From the beginning, I had bad vibes about the guy. I knew he was messing around. […]
Alone In Thailand <br> Charissa <br> Colorado, USA <br>Part 3
LEBEN Alone In Thailand Murderers look just like anyone else- Part 3 The plane landed. I got my luggage from the terminal and the grad students who were sent to pick me up came walking up to me: a girl named Grace and a guy named Golf. They seemed very nice but also I thought, ”murderers […]
What’s like being my age. <br>Asad <br>Gurugram, India
LIFE What’s like being my age. I just started thinking about how it is like being 23. To help my brain out, I started dwelling on how life was at 18,19,20…. I was just reading ‘The Outsider’ by Albert Camus when I stumbled on this question. These lyrics from a Jeremy Zucker song describes 23 pretty well […]
Stuck in business?<br>Hector <br>Texas, USA
WORK+ LIFE What would you do when you get stuck in business? “Hey, Pete, I just purchased a new Land Cruiser. Let’s take it off-road to test!” My friend immediately agreed. We had no idea what lay ahead of us that day. Soon we found ourselves riding over boulders, pits, ditches and sandy areas. The […]
Alone in Thailand<br> Charissa<br> Colorado, USA <br>Part 2
LEBEN Alone In Thailand The emotional rollercoaster before movingPart 2 Weirdly, after that tirade of suspicion, I was completely numb and emotionless for the last month and a half of the semester. I definitely had a building deficiency of sleep from my Senior Design project, at one point I only slept for two hours in […]
