Ladies and Gentlemen, can I please have your attention for this public service announcement: I did it again. My third book has been published. The title: Hold it Through the Curves. What my third book is about: Like my first and second book, I have written…
As requested, I constructed a list of “What I have learned” and things that you don’t know about me. Here is an attempt: I have a scar on my right index finger. My pet turtle bit me when I was a teenager. I speak a…
I love traveling. Going somewhere for the sake of seeing a new place, experience something I haven’t before or learning about the world, is reason enough to plan a trip. The itch to explore is naturally the main reason I travel. It is fun! There…
An upcoming fitness test made me think about body image and beauty. Natural beauty is wonderful. It is something I appreciate whenever I see it, no matter if it is a stunning landscape view or in the face of an unusually beautiful person. The reason…
Even though COVID restrictions are not as “strict” anymore, things feel weird here in Vienna. I don’t quite know how to put it, but something is off. While a bookstore owner around the corner tries to survive, I strangely catch myself buying fewer books. With…
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung When I think about romance, I think of two kinds of relationships. The opposite attracts and kindred spirit relationships. The former…
Of course, the time in Germany flew by in a heartbeat. I always know this before I even get home. I want to meet so many friends, talk to everyone, and spend time with them but it is not possible. Time flies. I just packed…
Eight hours or more a day. Five days or more a week. Forty-something weeks a year. Fifty years a life. You do the math. Because I can’t. All I know is that I spend an incredible amount of time at work. Sometimes it seems that…
“Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.”– Julian Barnes You may point out correctly, that it isn’t a real question. Because we don’t have a…
Things that annoy me: Corona and my son’s school informing me that one child has flu-like symptoms and will be tested. They also don’t know if the school will be open or closed next week. People who show zero interest in their child(ren) and don’t…
