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Life & TimesWinter is Here
It's the first day of winter, aka the shortest day of the year, aka the first day of vacation! M. and I are lucky to be work-free until early January, which…
December 21, 2013 · 3 min read
Here & ThereDaydreaming of Sweden
Work is winding down so I find myself getting ready for Christmas, and when I'm not doing that, I'm busy daydreaming about Sweden. I spent the holidays in…
December 18, 2013 · 2 min read
Life & TimesWhisk(e)y Memories
One of my first memories of when I drank whisky (because let's just forget the college years that consisted of endless shots of Jack Daniels and Jameson) was…
December 9, 2013 · 5 min read
Life & TimesTreptower Park & Hafen
It's difficult to believe that December is already here; this year seems to have flown by. And it's now advent season (interestingly enough, something Germans…
December 1, 2013 · 2 min read
Life & TimesBerlin: Gendarmenmarkt Christmas Market
Christmas Market season is here! Yeah yeah, I know they can get a bit eh, and many of the markets are pretty much carbon copies of one another, but it's still…
December 1, 2013 · 3 min read
Life & TimesReal Good Things
As I wrote about before, emotionally it has been a rough couple months for me. But it's not all mediocre and sad, so I thought I would highlight some of the…
November 28, 2013 · 2 min read
Life & TimesHomesick + Holidays
It has been a rough couple of weeks for me lately, as--aside from some longer-term health issues that we both dealt with--I am struggling with an intense wave…
November 24, 2013 · 6 min read
Life & TimesWandering in Wedding, or Gesundbrunnen.
After my last post about spending some time in Wedding, I was informed by a reader that I actually was in Gesundbrunnen, not Wedding. Say what? But I looked at…
November 17, 2013 · 3 min read
Life & TimesBerlin: Gerichtstraße 23
While wandering through Gesundbrunnen with M. last month, the Gerichtshöfe was not the only courtyard we came across. And after discovering the vegan…
November 13, 2013 · 2 min read
Eat & DrinkVeganomicon: French Lentil Soup with Tarragon and Thyme
My combination sickness (flu, pink eye, terrible cough) is gone, though I happened to pass some of it on to M., which means he is now sick. But he's been a…
November 2, 2013 · 2 min read
Life & TimesWedding: Getting Ready
Considering it has been nearly three months since M. and I got married, I suppose I should probably share some details and pictures. So here is the first sneak…
October 30, 2013 · 3 min read
Life & TimesSickness Survival
It's now nearing the end of day five of being sick and I might be losing my mind a little bit. When I first started feeling symptoms (a tiny tickle in my…
October 23, 2013 · 5 min read