Category Archives: Austria
by Jenna Griffin | Jul 10, 2019 |
I fell in love with this valley three years ago, in the summer.
by Jenna Griffin | Aug 10, 2018 |
Danke, Louise. Obrigada, João. Merci, Jess. Gracias, Vera.
by Andrew Knot | Feb 16, 2016 |
Vielkind fancies himself a portraitist. He sculpts the mountains many faces as a 19th century artist might have rendered a royal patron. His concern is showing the mountains at their best.
by Andrew Knot | Oct 16, 2015 |
Here, especially in the corporate world, my liberal arts background has more than once required an explanation (inevitably a defense) of the liberal arts. What can the liberal arts teach us today?
by Andrew Knot | Oct 16, 2014 |
A herd of cows killed a hiker in Tirol. This might not seem newsworthy, but the hiker was German, which necessitates at least a small degree of suspicion of foul play.
by Bekah (Williamson) Medendorp | May 31, 2014 |
Her jaw snaps decisively at the treat offered to her and I immediately recognize that jaw’s ability to snap me decisively in half if the opportunity arose.
by Andrew Knot | Mar 16, 2014 |
there’s nothing central about Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery). Situated in Vienna’s southeast outskirts, the cemetery is nearly a full nine kilometers from the city’s first district.
by Andrew Knot | Jan 16, 2014 |
I can bike down each of Vienna’s alleys. I can scrape my elbow on any number of her streets. Still, the city will never be completely mine.
by Andrew Knot | Dec 16, 2013 |
After reading about the potential elimination of the German major at Calvin, I’m writing to tell you a bit about what German at Calvin meant and continues to mean to me.
by Andrew Knot | Nov 16, 2013 |
Like the Bible story after which it is named, Bruegel’s painting seems to critique humanity’s thirst for power. The tower is unfinished and crumbling.
