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Life & TimesLiving the dream.
Today was the only day this week when I had no work or obligations, and rather than spend it doing some extra freelance work, instead I made the decision to…
April 14, 2012 · 3 min read
Life & TimesSnail Mail Surprises.
Living in a foreign country has definitely been a whirlwind experience, but now that I’m - as of today - officially nine months into the whole thing, my life…
April 13, 2012 · 3 min read
Life & TimesSpring!
I don’t exactly how/when it happened, but as of sometime in the past few weeks, it’s suddenly Spring in Berlin. Normally, the seasons changing are subtle to…
April 10, 2012 · 3 min read
Life & TimesElite, yo.
For slightly longer than five years, I’ve been a member of the website Yelp.com, which - for those who don’t know - is a website where users can post reviews…
March 10, 2012 · 2 min read
Life & TimesVisa Obtained.
After nearly eight months in Germany (five of which overstay my initial tourist visa) and a bureaucratic nightmare worth of paperwork, I finally have my…
March 8, 2012 · 1 min read
Life & Times"March is a gonna be a fucker..."
It seems like the worst of the winter is over. Already March is full of lots of rain, but there’s also warmer weather, which is one of the advantages of cloud…
March 2, 2012 · 4 min read
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January Recapitulation.
January started out cold, and loud. At midnight, the fireworks around the city were exploding, and we had a sixth-floor view from which to take it all in.…
February 27, 2012 · 2 min read
Life & TimesTürkischer Markt.
For months, I’ve been hearing about Türkischer Markt, the Turkish farmer’s market in North-Neukölln, but never made it there myself. Basically, it’s a long row…
February 17, 2012 · 3 min read
Life & TimesResolutions.
I’ve always thought resolutions were for suckers. There is the permeating school of thought that the start of a new year only stands in mentally for people,…
January 2, 2012 · 6 min read
Life & TimesSprachschule.
Life in Berlin. Where do I begin? I have dropped off the radar, which is relatively atypical of me, since I’m a writer, a communicator, a blogger, et cetera. I…
December 9, 2011 · 3 min read
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Things I (Don't) Miss: Part I.
I am relatively lucky that I have experienced literally no bouts of real actual homesickness since arriving in Germany. There is a matter of missing people,…
September 19, 2011 · 1 min read
Life & TimesRandom thoughts.
I slowly have realized that I’m not so good at this day-to-day updating anymore, and it’s something I attribute to the fact that I’m not on vacation. But…
August 25, 2011 · 3 min read