I have developed a knack for fitting in — or maybe I should say I seem to fit in.
This is good and bad.
I also feel like I’ve found where I belong, and that’s good.
Read more “No more fitting in, now I want to belong everywhere and no where”
I always said I was leaving and never coming back.
During my high school graduation, so many years ago, I sat next to a girl I’d known for years who cried throughout the entire ceremony. I didn’t know her well, but I don’t think I’d ever seen her cry.
Me? I sat there with a big dopey grin on my face. I was leaving, and I was never coming back.
Read more “Finding my authentic self by leaving and never coming back”
Talk about the weather? Hot. Hot as hell in Europe. Tabloid-style headlines were paired with red-and-orange heat maps and pictures of melting bicycles, people queued at swimming pools and naked men riding mopeds.
(OK, to be fair, it was one naked man on the Autobahn, but still. You can’t unsee that.)
Read more “Talk about the weather: Hot, cold or extreme, it’s a favorite topic”
Among the books I’ve read recently, I enjoyed “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” by Marie Kondo.
If you know me personally, you might think this is odd, because I have virtually nothing left to “tidy up.” I don’t have a house or things to fill it.
Read more “I made my own magic ‘tidying up’ my life long before I read the book”