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Mystery Joy | Exploring Hamburg

November 9, 2015April 18, 2016 First Person ForeignBeauty

Today this weird clanging woke me up. Even though I woke up at 9am, I laid in bed (cardinal error) and slipped back into a doze. So I awoke (again) to this sound at 1pm[…]

Copenhagen | While You’re Deciding, Go to Denmark

November 5, 2015April 18, 2016 First Person ForeignBeauty

That’s What I Did. Nicole, an American Friend traveling, came to Hamburg. She arrived on the eve of our weekend in Scandinavia! Fresh off an interesting interview (the most interesting I’ve had), I am bobbing in[…]

Should I Stay or Should I Roam Now? | Hamburg, Germany

October 28, 2015April 18, 2016 First Person ForeignGermany

The Interview: I sat across a coral-lipped bilingual Brit, who was born in Germany, wearing high-waisted pinstripe “trousers” with a coiffure like Selma Blair’s. I’ll never be cool. I was meeting with her to get[…]

Comforts are Far Away | Hamburg

October 17, 2015April 18, 2016 First Person ForeignBlank Slate

Confession: I re-woke at 2:45pm. I could blame it on jet lag except I did this in America more times than I’d like to admit over the last 4 months. Escape from the Gray Sleeping[…]

Why Do You Think I’m So Lucky? | Hamburg

October 17, 2015April 18, 2016 First Person ForeignExploration

I was shopping with a friend in Trader Joe’s. I hate running into acquaintances in public because the conversation is usually forced, engineered or clammy. When do you leave a short chat with someone you[…]

Moving | What to Keep

September 7, 2015April 19, 2016 First Person ForeignBlank Slate

Right Now, there are kind strangers walking through my apartment talking about moving in. Today other kind strangers bought my orange chairs. It feels like everyone is taking a small part of me away, even[…]