A visit to the pumpkin patch
On Saturday, Jon and I went to Cool Patch Pumpkins. It’s the first time in a few years that we went and I had been insisting that we have to go in October. What I...
Category: good times
Between the years
The German phrase “zwischen den Jahren” (“between the years”) refers to the days between Christmas and New Year’s Day. I am always finding myself in a weird state of mind during this time. Not bad,...
On my birthday
I have to admit I was not in a very celebratory mood in the days leading up to my birthday, which was on March, 10. I wish I had felt a little bit more excited...
Our Christmas
The weekend before Christmas, I finally got around to baking some holiday cookies and since it’s just two people eating over here, I stuck with one of our favorite cookies: Vanillekipferl. Saturday night, we walked...
A day with friends in Napa Wine Country
One thing I love about my job is that I am allowed to work a flex schedule (four 10-hour days and three-day weekends, booyah!) and that this also affords me the option to shift my...
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...
30: NaBloPoMo – it’s a wrap!
Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo! We did it – again! If you also participated and made it to the end – congratulations! If you tried, but didn’t quite manage to blog every day –...
SF, I’ll never get tired of you
Two weekends ago, J and I decided to do what we should do more often: head out to San Francisco for the day. Even though we live relatively close to the City (only 1,5 hours...
A Christmas recap of sorts
Christmas. Mmh. Christmas seems incredibly far away now. It’s been well a over a month. I feel silly writing a recap about Christmas being so far into 2013 already, but it must be done. To...
Our East Coast trip: the last day in Boston
This is the continued recap of our 10-day trip to the East Coast … the other parts are here, here, here, here and here. * * * On our last day in Boston (07/08), I got up quite early to...