I was born and raised in the Hudson Valley region of New York State, near New York City. I’ve understood the concept of hills and valleys and mountains all of my life, from my childhood excursions to the Catskills. In high school I was an earth science nerd and I’d read up on factoids about [...]
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On writing “what you know”
posted by erin on October 11, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/on-writing-what-you-know
World Cup fever!
I has the World Cup fever. I has it bad. I was in Germany in June 2006, during the last FIFA World Cup. Having grown up playing sports, the daughter of a sports-obsessed father (rather equal opportunity, actually, in his enthusiasm), it was only natural that being in the host country of the 2006 World [...]
posted by erin on June 19, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/world-cup-fever
Deutschland Superlatives!
I figured now that the trip has finished and I’ve had some reasonable amount of time to reflect on my experiences in Europe and Germany in particular, I’d create my own list of weird superlatives (or top-5 or 10 lists) and give you a basic rundown of things I observed that I have never really [...]
posted by erin on September 8, 2006
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2006/deutschland-superlatives
Dachau
Samstag, 22 Juli I woke up feeing exhausted and aching all over. Those damned Isar rocks! Smite them all! My knees and legs were cramped from crouching, sitting, kneeling, and squatting by the barbecue all evening, so the thought of being a tourist hurt. (Literally.) The thought of where I was going wasn’t really too [...]
posted by erin on July 31, 2006
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2006/dachau
