Last week, I visited my #fromURLtoIRL friend Tanja in Southern California and I had such a fantastic time! Tanja, like me, is a German (dual) citizen and we’ve “immigrated” around the same time (2006/2007), however, I got my green card through marriage (as you know), but Tanja (and her husband...
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Have you been to a wellness retreat before? In all honesty, I used to go back and forth between really wanting to do it and thinking that it was definitely not for me. My problem is: as an introvert, I was afraid that a weekend retreat would exhaust me (spoiler...
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The weekend before last, I participated in the annual Davis Pride Run for Equality 10k again. If you recall, I ran this small local race last year for the first time and it’s the 3rd time they’re putting it on.This time, my dear friend (and running buddy!) Susi signed...
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As I mentioned, at the beginning of my Germany trip, I spent 24 hours near Munich visiting my best friend from back home. She moved to Munich a couple of years ago and I had yet to see where she now lives with her husband M at Lake Starnberg. I...
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You know, I do this sometimes: go to San Francisco to meet up with various ladies, that I once upon a time met on the Internet, and spent the day. I’ve done it with Viviane, with Manja, with Jenny, and last Friday with my friend Tanja . San Francisco is a...
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This picture (above) was taken during the weekend that I spent in San Francisco with my dear childhood friend S last year. We came across the intersection while walking around the Mission District and I stopped to take the picture and to pause and cherish for the moment how lucky...
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Last weekend, I got to spend three days with one of my oldest and dearest friends. Cathy lives in Sydney, Australia and we’ve been friends for almost 25 years. We started out as pen friends back in the day. Does anyone still remember what FB’s (“friendship books”) are? People sent...
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As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I was planning another “girls’ day getaway” with my friend Susi, which we’re trying to make an annual thing) and that happened to be last Sunday. We both had been overdue for some uninterrupted girl time. There is something so energizing and...
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