It won’t surprise most of you, but my life these days is an extremely precarious balance between: trying to finish my dissertation by mid-winter, getting ready for two upcoming conference presentations, preparing to give up the Bremen apartment and live full-time in Berlin, getting myself in PR-shape for 5K and 10K races in the early fall, …
Like a lot of people, I’ve watched too many friends, family members, and acquaintances deal with cancer. Breast cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, Hodgkin’s, leukemia. Most have won their battles for now, suffering bravely through treatment — chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, or all of the above — and have become survivors. But sadly, others have not. Despite …
There are lots of reasons to celebrate this day. For one, I now belong to the mid-to-late-30’s age group (although I can hardly believe it). Mein Schatz and I celebrate 9 years of togetherness today too. And even better than all of that, my parents are in town on their grand European adventure, and we …
As just about anyone in Northern Europe could tell you, spring has taken her own sweet time in arriving this year. So we delayed a bit in planting our little balcony garden, but on the first day of June, we decided it was time — sun or no sun! We made the trip to our local …