This blog features fiction and non-fiction stories along with visual art. The stories explore a wide range of themes, often focusing on identity, personal struggles, and human connections. The artwork reflects both ongoing projects and previously exhibited art. The creative processes which are the foundation of art, storytelling, and science share much in common. The creative process is rooted in curiosity, exploration and play, the kind familiar to children.
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Eva
Rudi and I were colleagues stuck at a small elite college in the middle of nowhere Ohio. We didn’t quite make it at a high-powered university. He taught physics and I was an associate prof in the chemistry department. Were we friends? I guess so but not...
Whose panties are they? Children explore the world around them
Mathilda, Oscar’s mom, asked him to go to the basement of their apartment building and put the washed clothes in the dryer. Oscar hated the basement. The roaches there were large and vicious and he saw them eyeing him always ready to pounce. Mathilda stood next to a...
Bernd Barth catches a train
Everything matters including how you deal with fear The rainbow of scents from the flower stand are gone, replaced by the odor of stale beer. The café Geiger, gone. Thaler’s luggage shop is no more. The little shops in the central railroad station in Strasburg that...