You have to ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. – Goethe Last weekend, my son turned seven. Despite the Corona-madness, we were able to put together an awesome birthday party with fewer friends, and with my closest family. I have been writing…
I usually sleep pretty well but there are just some of those weird nights. Cannot sleep? Find out what I do when counting sheep just does not cut it. 1. Waiting 2. Pondering 3. Recollection of recent mistakes 4. Neighborhood Watch. Across, there is a…
So, should I start by talking about all the at-home Yoga workouts I have been pretending to do, or all the banana bread I have been baking for Instagram? Or, what if I told you that everything we knew about slowly going insane on a…
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott Ye A couple of days ago, I had a computer problem and could not sign out for some reason. A colleague told me to just, “hit CTLR+ALT+DEL…
Scene 1 (signing up at Tinder): She entered her twenties and wanted to live a different life with the freedom to travel, no children, sunbathing on the beaches of Tulum, kissing a partner outside of the Moulin Rouge in Paris, and have a career. She…
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” —C.S. Lewis Throughout my adult life, I have spent many minutes that have amounted to many hours and maybe even days thinking about…
My son started prefacing his requests with this phrase: “I know you are probably going to say no….”. One day I was standing in the kitchen, denying his request for more chocolate for the 9 millionth time, when it hit me: I say no to…
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”…
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” – Kahlil Gibran When I started this journey of simplifying my life, I realized how much more freedom, joy, and balance this brought me.…
I had an amazing weekend even though it was also a bit sad because my parents left. I just worked an hour on an email to all the parents in my son’s class because I am actually the “Elternvorstand”, meaning I am the liaison between…
