My Typically Untypical Berlin Week
I can’t describe a typical day or even week to you, because everything is always different. Since I moved to Berlin just over two years ago, I don’t have two […]
Category Archives: Germany
2 Years in Germany
The Love We Share: An American Expat Confronts Home from Afar (Part 1 of 2)
It is a difficult thing to be proud to be an American and to love my home right now. Because I am. And I do. From a continent, an ocean […]
Fear Is A Luxury
I was deemed an essential employee from the onset of the Corona panic. Military bases don’t close unless necessary. That is understandable, as many bases function as self-contained cities. For […]
Farewell
I woke up Sunday morning, March 1st to multiple missed Facebook Messenger calls. I knew what had happened without calling back. Grandpa had died. The entire family had been waiting […]
10 Lessons About Turning 40
The famous 1997 essay by Mary Schmich that was turned into a cult song by Baz Luhrman is hard to top for dispensing wisdom about getting older. But allow me […]
Babylon Berlin
The minute I stepped off the train in busy, dirty, loud, 24-hour, overwhelming Berlin, I immediately felt relief. The history, the architecture, the art, VEGAN food and beer that actually […]
Where and What Is Home?
The first trip back to your home country after living abroad is both a dive back into the familiar and a jarring sense of waking from a very long dream. […]
11 Months in Germany And Turning A Corner
I’m working on a memoir about this whole experience and it’s turned into an anti-Eat Pray Love. I am aware of the parody that already exists, but I’m not meaning […]
8 Months in Germany and an Impromptu Trip to Esslingen
I had very good intentions of updating this blog at least once a month. Then I started a new job while ending the first one and I was back to […]
Stephanie Golisch 