Davis Pride Run for Equality 10k
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...
Category: friends
24 hours with my bff
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...
A day in San Francisco
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,...
26: Lifelong friends
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...
A decade in the making
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...
Girl time: Kayaking in Napa
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...
SoCal weekend trips FTW
Two Saturdays ago, I flew down to SoCal for a quick weekend trip to see Caryn and her boyfriend Joe. They flew out from Washington, D.C. and I was so thrilled to see them again....
Travel recap: Grevenbroich (my hometown)
I owe you a fun recap of my trip home in March, but I’ve decided to break it up in travel chunks, rather than trying to do one big blog post about all of it....
hello, december.
Here we are. We’ve entered the last month of 2015 and I don’t know how yet another year is almost over. I was just talking about this with my friend last weekend and how the...
23: The Berkeley Halfmarathon (10k)
If you had told me a year ago, that I would run a 10k at the Berkeley Halfmarathon event in 2015, I would have laughed and called you crazy. Seriously, even though I’ve played sports...