Aspirin, electrolytes and coffee

This week started out on a great note: I got to go back to my favorite German amusement park: the Oktoberfest in Munich. How was your Monday? Yesterday, I hopped on the train with a handful of my co-workers, in our dirndls and liederhosen, for a “team trip” to Oktoberfest. The crowd doing the YMCA. […]

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3/4 sleeves and wonky umbrellas

Photo: Richard Avedon As summer tiptoes out and fall slowly creeps in, I find myself again in the most confusing part of the fiscal wardrobe year. This week offered cool-ish mornings, warm-ish days, and chilly evenings. It rained heavily for a few days, a few days had spotty showers, and day there were isolated thunderstorms. […]

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Cat Nappin’

Since we’re trucking through the post-Labor Day dog days of autumn, sipping on our Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes and just trying to make it to Thanksgiving (or…Christmas for Germans), I thought I’d share some pics of serious cat naps. In my next life, I want to be a Croatian cat. Also, on a related note, […]

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