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Niels Sorrells

Niels Sorrells
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Be Yourself

Concerted efforts … or a crisis told in five years of live shows

It’s 2017 and I’m sitting in the office of a psychologist in the basement of a family retreat center in Germany’s Black Forest. We’ve been…

Oct 14, 2022

Concerted efforts … or a crisis told in five years of live shows

Oct 14, 2022

Niels Sorrells
in
Be Yourself

On Knowing a Nazi and Other Inherited Risks

I suppose the moment I knew I would never, ever escape my German background came at a New Year’s party in the Washington suburbs. I’d say…

Mar 23, 2022

On Knowing a Nazi and Other Inherited Risks

Mar 23, 2022

Niels Sorrells

It’s a hard thing, getting back to the life you never really had

I thought, for my wife’s birthday, it would be nice to get her some flowers. I suppose that’s not too bold a move, but this thought came to…

Aug 23, 2021

It’s a hard thing, getting back to the life you never really had

Aug 23, 2021

Niels Sorrells

I never expected to find some hope for the world while watching my son die

There is a plaque in a building in the Pankow district of Berlin listing the names of 150 Jewish children and babies and their minders who…

Aug 22, 2021

I never expected to find some hope for the world while watching my son die

Aug 22, 2021

Niels Sorrells
in
Be Yourself

Well, look at what we’ve got here…

Being relatively new to the world of blogging, I suppose I had expected that I wouldn’t start getting trolled until I had actually…

Jun 2, 2021

Jun 2, 2021

Niels Sorrells
in
Be Yourself

Everyone seems so angry these days

I do think I get it. I really do.

Mar 4, 2021

Everyone seems so angry these days

Mar 4, 2021

Niels Sorrells

Niels Sorrells

I’m an editor, writer and comics book fan living in Berlin. I’m a husband and was a father of three until cancer struck my youngest. www.five-minus-one.com

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