first week of January: a retrospective

The big smiles and cheerful twitter in the hall, like schoolkids returning from summer break, have dwindled. So many projects halted at Christmas, only to deal with later. Well, it’s later. Meanwhile, I’m thinking I have to be able to at least make it through the first week of carrying out my New Year’s resolutions […]

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Happy new year!

Returning to Frankfurt the day after New Year’s Day, it felt like I had entered a war zone. In addition to the cold, rainy, grey weather that whispered “welcome back” to me, every street was littered with trash. Broken bottles. Firework debris. Soggy streamers. Apparently, they like to party BIG for New Year’s here (I […]

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how to improve your winter in 5 minutes

My current nightly routine looks like this: Get home from work and put on pjs Eat anything with root vegetables, oats, cinnamon Make some root chips Go to bed Why is winter so hard?! I fell asleep during yoga today…yoga at noon! And it’s not even that cold yet. And I just realized…it’s not even […]

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