LB’s Blog
A Silver Reindeer and Sleigh
My husband is from the Salzkammergut region of Austria. Lakes and what they consider low, but very old mountains. His uncle, Richard Leutner, was born, raised, and lived in the small, historic village (okay let’s be honest Austria is nothing but small historic villages) of Henndorf where he and my husband’s aunt Berta, nee Laimer, lived in a 400 year old house (below). To give a reference point, it was originally built when Rembrandt was up in Amsterdam painting masterpieces and sipping tea with Spinoza. The house,...
read moreThe One Who Got Away
To be honest I cannot remember his name or how I met him. So let’s call him Carl. I do know I was living in New York at the time. We talked about fishing up near Hunter Mountain in the Catskills. This area had bittersweet memories for me, of a relationship that had only recently gone sour, so when Carl said he was going trout fishing there the next weekend and asked me along I said “Okay.” I don’t know what I expected. We left the city in the early morning of a summer Saturday. We drove over the George Washington Bridge and...
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