When I submitted an abstract to attend a conference in Jyväskylä, you can be sure I had never heard of it before and definitely couldn’t tell you where in Finland the city was located. I didn’t even know how to pronounce Jyväskylä (yoo-vas-ku-la) until several days before my trip. But that didn’t stop me from being super excited …
You may or may not have noticed that I haven’t mentioned a peep about the Hamburg Half Marathon in more a month. It’s coming up in less than three weeks, so maybe I should give you a bit of an update, huh? Things on the training front have been very frustrating. Around the time I returned from …
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 …
Even though I really enjoyed coming back to Berlin yesterday, I still have a post or two to share from my time in Norway. Maybe that will help me avoid Norway withdrawals! In particular, I realized that I have yet to tell you about the visit we made to the Nobel Peace Center over Easter. …