If you’ve been around these parts a little longer (or have carefully read my short bio in the sidebar), you might know that I hold dual citizenship. It’s a privilege that I don’t take for granted. My citizenship interview and naturalization ceremony were on April 3, 2012, which means yesterday was my 10th anniversary of…
You guys, I am having a bit of a moment here. Yesterday was my California-versary. I arrived here for the first time on September 9, 2001. That was 20 years ago. TWENTY! It really doesn’t feel that long. I have almost lived here for as long as I lived in Germany. That seems so crazy…
Photo by Julie Johnson on Unsplash My blog friend Charlotte wrote an interesting blog post about cutting ties with friends the other day and it stirred something up in me that I had thought and wanted to write about before, but which I never put on (digital) paper. To get a better base line, go…
I can’t believe it’s been four almost five weeks since I returned from my long-anticipated visit back home with my family. Time just won’t slow down and it’s been hard to get back into my blogging game (as you can tell). I had an absolutely wonderful time and soaked up every minute. I can also…
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. – A. A. Milne On Monday morning, I dropped off my family – my parents, my sister, BIL and…
Today, my friend Kat is filling in for me while I am embarking on a road-trip down the coast with my family. Kat has been a dear friend and long-time favorite blogger of mine for years now. She’s a fellow German with a huge amount of wanderlust and she just recently made her dream come true and up…
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that in the last two years during NaBloPoMo, I started a little series about German idioms. Idioms are awesome in every language and the more idioms you know in a foreign language, the closer you’ll get to perfecting your language skills. J and I…
This photo was taken in 2006 when I visited Berlin. It was one of the stretches of wall that were still standing. Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a peaceful victory by people that took to the streets and courageously resisted a dictatorship and started a peaceful revolution. I was…
In case you noticed, it was a bit quiet here the last few weeks (in case you didn’t, which is totally possible, that’s ok, too. Welcome back!). But I had a good reason to abandon this space for a little bit. As you might have already figured from Instagram updates (again, if you follow me…
I started this series “Things you wouldn’t know” a while back, because as an expat, living in a different country away from home, you encounter a whole lot of things that are just different from what you’re used to. Some things are significant, others barely noticeable. After 10+ years, I am pretty much used to most…
