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Category Archives: Ramblings
Boom Goes The Head
And I never really sleep anymore… It’s been two years. And I always get those dangerous dreamsAnd I never get a minute of peace… Two years with this weird, vague pressure on all of us. Two years of complete inability … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, depression, EHS, Exploding Head Syndrome, pandemic, pressure, stress
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Between the Years
I run into Vicky sometime during those limbo days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the time Germans so aptly call between the years – the old one all but over, the new one not yet begun. I don’t know … Continue reading
New Year’s Day
Lilly texts me on New Year’s Day. “He’s hungover like shit, and god knows what else,” she tells me. “I sat in the car this morning, wanting nothing more than to go home to my mom, and the darkness was … Continue reading
The Book Was Better (and other reasons why Hollywood sucks)
Right. I may be extremely late to the party, since the movie this rant is centering around came out in 2010, but for all I know nothing has changed much since then. It’s Percy Jackson, and if you haven’t read … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Hollywood, movie adaptations, political correctness, review
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Women?
First of all: Yes. It’s my conviction that trans women are women. Now for the difficult part. I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue over the course of the past few weeks, ever since you know who wrote her … Continue reading
Everything sucks? Have a book.
I’ve been thinking these past weeks whether I should write the obligatory Corona blog post, but hey, let’s be real. I’m not a scientist, and the last thing we need is another not qualified opinion. I have a million thoughts … Continue reading
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Tagged Corona, COVID-19, escape, free books, Kindle, lockdown, quarantine, social distancing
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New Year, Traffic Jams, and Jobs No One Wants
It’s not too late for one of those Happy New Year posts, is it? Sigh. What can I say, I’ve been busy. Not with any writing related issues, unfortunately. Instead, I did all the after-vacation laundry and other stuff, built … Continue reading
Here’s to Another Decade
Recently, the notion that we’re reaching the end of the decade has been popping up all over my newsfeed, together with the invitation to reflect on what we have achieved during those ten years… I don’t like the word achieved. … Continue reading
Days in Tarvisio, or The Things We Do For Our Kids
This summer, when we asked the kids where they wanted to go, they surprisingly said “mountains.” Not that they’re much into hiking, it’s just that ever since we took them to Tyrol, Austria, at one point in the past, they’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, climbing, family vacation, HarrietOnTour, holidays, Italy, Lago del Predil, Monte Canin, parenting, ropes course, Tarvisio
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Summer Days…
…are over. Not summer as such, not yet, but the holidays are. Those bright, endless days of sunshine and adventure, of laissez-faire and savoir-vivre. How I wish each and everyone of us were able to properly cultivate that attitude, to … Continue reading