Notes from Seattle
I've been holding off on writing until a cloudy day, because I know we're owed many weeks and months' worth of bottomless grey, and...
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Oct 8, 20234 min read
The final days, Berlin
In Berlin my last two weeks, I showed Austin the midnight trains, the potato place, the Spandau gym, the apartment that plagued me with...
Jul 2, 20236 min read
Weekend in Munich
The church bells I'll remember the most, the way they ring and ring in the morning and not on-beat, like you can really imagine someone...
Jul 1, 202313 min read
Munich & what came before
The first full day of Munich, I'm writing now in short sentences just so I can get something down before all the weeks pass and months...
May 31, 20238 min read
Dance, dance, dance
On Saturday morning, I recycled empty plastic bottles at Havelpark that I’d been collecting for weeks. They vibrated in Oma’s basket on...
May 29, 202310 min read
BFF ♥
I have that kind of soul and body and mind restlessness where I keep erasing this first sentence because I want to start with a bang, to...
May 19, 20233 min read
Quicknotes
I'm at the bus stop Waiting for five after nine For gym and best friend (Sara's getting me to think in haikus.) On Wednesday I visited...
May 12, 20238 min read
The past ten days
le week-end passé And here again, so many days have passed. I’m standing outside on the train platform in the heavenly sun, wearing just...
May 2, 202310 min read
Falkensee
I feel like it's been so long since I've blogged that I don't even know what to say, how to write, how to think. But it's only been a...
Apr 22, 20235 min read
Into Dawn
On Friday night I sat for twenty minutes on what felt like a brand new, well-lit SBahn, texting Austin about all the faces and the...
Apr 20, 20235 min read
Mitte
On Thursday l got a facial at a wonderful spa in the bustling Mitte district. I left an hour and a half early for the appointment and...
Apr 18, 20236 min read
tanzen & the in-between
I spent Sunday at Oma's house, passing the time from one AirBnB to the next. For one of the first times since being here, her apartment...
Apr 14, 20238 min read
These past days
It's gray and drizzly and I hear the street, the tires catching the rain. The tree branches are full of big water droplets that don't...
Apr 12, 20233 min read
Fröhliche Ostern
The insomnia at this gorgeous AirBnB has been brutal, the piercing rush of traffic that cuts through the white noise on my phone, that...
Apr 4, 20237 min read
the world outside
I took two melatonins last night and still woke up several times to the sound of traffic right outside my window, if I even slept at all....
Apr 3, 20233 min read
Excuses to stay in
I googled a bunch of Berlin clubs Sunday morning and felt entirely overwhelmed. I used "cleaning my apartment" as an excuse to not leave...
Apr 1, 20237 min read
Back to normal, ish
I've been jamming to 90s Love Songs on Apple Music because this is the best channel ever: Backstreet Boys, Alanis Morissette, Goo Goo...
Mar 27, 20236 min read
S(Mall) trips
Today I worked out for the first time since February 27: I took literally one month off, the longest I've taken in years, even through...
Mar 21, 20232 min read
the place by the tracks
In the third-floor apartment, I walk around and touch the cold furnaces. I take a brilliantly hot shower that steams up the whole room...
Mar 19, 20236 min read
Berlin: the week since
Opa made it through the surgery and spent only one day in the ICU...! I feel like we're on "borrowed time" now, which makes me all the...
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