36th Garlic Festival: better with time
Another Garlic Festival—the 36th to be exact—is in the books. And boy, it was a hot one.
Tobacco comes with hidden costs
Kurt Drückler was a heavy smoker. For many years, the German gentleman ran a tobacco shop on the corner of Alexandrinen and Sebastian streets in the heart of Berlin. A few months after I was born, he died from emphysema. This lingering and painful disease, caused by years of inhaling tobacco smoke, prevented him from traveling to the United States in 1966 to see me, his newborn grandson.
