On Tuesday, in the gait trainer at my therapy centre, it was catastrophic. I had such a strong lumbar pain that I had to quit my session right away. The next day, however, I set my all-time record, running 45 minutes nonstop. Not only does that depend on my daily…

Corona struck me as it struck everybody. Not more and not less I would say. Although I probably don’t have as good an immune system as my peers, being in a wheelchair and thus not having an equally good cardiovascular system, I consider myself relatively fit. From the beginning of…

Paula! It was love at first sight. When she came walking through our garden door, and I first saw her cute face and her and elegant yet playful appearance, I immediately felt she’s the one. After looking around curiously in our garden — her new home — my sister Nina…

Last Sunday, I spent the entire day with my parents. We walk (I roll) to our church, which is thank God within walking distance. Usually, on the way there I steer my wheelchair by myself, via my chin control. It took me quite a long time to figure it out…

My parents were at a wedding and I invited Damian to come stay for the weekend. I was very happy when he accepted my invitation which was on quite short notice. …

Lourdes, 2. bis 6. Mai 2019 Heute kommt mal wieder ein deutscher Text, da es mir selbst in meiner Muttersprache schwerfällt, die richtigen Worte zu finden. Anfang Mai bin ich mit den Maltesern, darunter viele teils sehr enge Freunde von mir, nach Lourdes in den französischen Pyrenäen gepilgert. …

This morning, I had to get up at 7 AM. One of the former workplaces of my physiotherapist Esther is the Asklepios Klinik in Falkenstein, and so she had organized that we can use their swimming pool! Back in the days when I was in rehab, I could occasionally use…

Ich habe irgendwann gesehen, dass Simon Rattle erneut in die Alte Oper kommen wird. Wieso schreibe ich „erneut“? Weil ich ihn im Februar schon einmal gehört habe. Damals hat er mit den Londoner Symphonikern Bruckner und Tschaikowsky aufgeführt. Der englische Stardirigent mit seiner weißen Haarmähne hat, so steht es auf…

Tonight I had planned to go together with my parents to the “Libanon on Stage” theatre, a fundraising theatre for the Lebanon project of the “Gemeinschaft junger Malteser“, the youth wing of the Maltese in Germany. As a student, in my summer break, I used to go together with friends…