There’s nothing I love more about starting the new year than looking back over the books I’ve read, and putting together the (long) list of books I hope to read in the year to come. So many books, so little time! Since receiving my Kindle for Christmas last year, I’m reading a lot more than I have …
How can it be autumn already? The leaves are turning beautiful colors and falling to the ground, but it was sunny and nearly 70 degrees yesterday. The first day of November! In Germany! It’s like some kind of crazy time warp, isn’t it? Personally, I was just getting used to summer. But indeed, time is marching …
For this month’s Urban Jungle Bloggers post, I’m showing off just a few of the (perhaps hundreds of) plants at work that I enjoy nearly every day. Our building is absolutely brimming with greenery, which helps soften some of its architectural edges and really enlivens the space. You’ll notice in the photos that we have …
Reading in the evenings has become my way to unwind after long days and hard workouts. It’s also my preferred source of entertainment during my commute now that I only have to schlep my Kindle around rather than heavy books — this is super relevant for the heavy (literally and figuratively) books I have read this summer! …