Alright, after this week was all but perfect and it was sometimes really hard to remember that life is beautiful still, I did something yesterday I had planned for years, but never got around to: I grabbed my bike and drove along the river Elbe which runs through my home town of Dresden. The sun was shining, it was warm enough to wear shorts and a t-shirt … and the colors! The beautiful autumn colors were almost causing a sensory overload.
I always wanted to take some short biking tours, but …

To be absolutely honest: when this “financial crisis” hit the news, I didn’t really worry about it. I don’t have enough money to invest into anything, so my understanding of these financial things is not too deep. And, after all, it happened far, far away. So why should it bother me?
Well, I guess, just like me, you couldn’t help noticing that the issue didn’t vanish from the headlines of the newspapers, online magazines or from the tv talkshows. And, now, it really has been driven home for me when the …

Finally, after years and years, college is finally over. This Wednesday at 10.30 am I took the last of my final exams (and sucked, but who cares now) and passed. On my way out of the building I dumped my review papers into the trash bin, wearing a slightly insane grin on my face
My mom permanently damaged ear drum when she screamed in the phone when I told her that her daughter now has joined the ranks of academics. And my colleagues showed up in  surprisingly large numbers …

Yep. That’s me. Figures. Just after I have some revelations about the beauty of life, it turns on me and makes me feel like [insert favorite swear word].
Yesterday I rode my bike to work and when I arrived, I almost collapsed, feeling sick to my stomach, dizzy and utterly exhausted. After some complimentary comments by my colleagues (”You look like the stuff in the air sickness bags on planes”), I decided to go home. I couldn’t concentrate anyway and I didn’t want to infect anyone else. When I did my …

Beware, this is going to be long. Go, grab a cocktail or a glass of wine and then come back and read.
“All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition or moments .. of revelation. This had the feeling of both.
G’Quan wrote: ‘There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, …