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 …
In my previous post, I told you all about the excitement of participating in the Hive European Blog Conference last weekend in Berlin. But there was also some pre-conference action going on! On Friday evening, Jenni from Museum Diary organized a visit for a small group of us to the Jewish Museum Berlin (who kindly sponsored our tickets). I’ve …
This past weekend, I attended my first ever blog conference — The Hive at the betahaus in Berlin. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why I blog, what my goals are for No Apathy Allowed, and how much free time I want to devote to it. And the Hive turned out to be the …
For more than a decade I’ve lived in cities with comprehensive public transportation systems — New York, Hamburg, Berlin — and I must admit, I’ve barely driven at all in that time. That’s certainly one of the reasons why, for the last five years, I’ve procrastinated on the bureaucratic process of exchanging my American driver’s …