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Life & TimesWeekend Update #4
This past weekend was a good one, though it went by far too fast. Which reminds me: how is it already almost February? My Friday was a particularly nice, and…
January 26, 2015 · 4 min read
Here & ThereHelsinki: Suomenlinna
Like most expats who hail from coastal destinations, I am all too aware of the landlocked feeling of where I live. The dozens of lakes in Berlin make it so…
January 20, 2015 · 5 min read
Life & TimesWeekend Update #3
My experience as a freelancer with a partner who is not is that while I want to go out and do something on the weekends, more often than not, he wants to stay…
January 19, 2015 · 3 min read
Life & TimesWeekend Update #2
After an incredibly busy and stressful week, the weekend was particularly welcomed by me. Friday was such a miserable day, beginning with staying at home in…
January 12, 2015 · 4 min read
Life & TimesGreat Christmas Exchange
It's been years since I've participated in any kind of elaborate gift exchange or Secret Santa type deal. When I was younger, I did this more often with…
January 7, 2015 · 2 min read
Art & CultureAsheville: River Arts District
One of the advantages of living in Tennessee (as my parents do) is its proximity to so many states. This may not seem like something spectacular to many people…
January 6, 2015 · 3 min read
Life & TimesWeekend Update #1
The first weekend of the year has come and gone, and it was a relatively non-eventful one, which I blame on the holidays; it's really difficult to work…
January 5, 2015 · 3 min read
Art & Culture2014 in Books
After reading 30+ books last year easily, I started off this year with a goal of reading 50 books, and I definitely made it, with some half-read books to…
January 2, 2015 · 5 min read
Art & Culture10 of 14.
This year saw a lot of good music, but my own personal experience is that there was not a lot of great music—music that made me want to listen again and again,…
January 1, 2015 · 8 min read
Here & There2014 Favorite Travel Memories
For us, 2014 was a year of (mostly) slower travel. We planned less than before, we were more flexible with what we saw (and not disappointed that we didn't see…
December 31, 2014 · 7 min read
Eat & DrinkNashville: The Wild Cow
While visiting my parents in Tennessee over Thanksgiving, we took a handful of day trips, one of which was to Nashville, and as the resident vegan, I was given…
December 18, 2014 · 3 min read
Life & TimesBerlin --> Goose Bay --> Newark --> Houston --> Knoxville
So, we're finally in Tennessee. As seems to be the tradition, just about everything had to go wrong, which mean we ended up arriving a day after scheduled...…
November 29, 2014 · 6 min read