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 […]
Category Archives: Writing
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 […]
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 […]
Five Months in Germany and the New Normal
Winter in my little corner of Baden-Wuerttemberg has been cruel. It’s been gray, freezing and The Plague: Version 2019 has been going around. Everyone in the packed trains is coughing […]
Stephanie’s Portland Picks for November
November — when the holiday crunch really takes on full speed. There’s a bit less activity now in town after the summer. Shows You Don’t Want to Miss As usual, […]
Stephanie’s Portland Picks for April
My New Feature – Stephanie’s Portland Picks I’ve lived in Portland for over a decade and I know it like the back of my hand. I decided to post my […]
Must Be Nice
Buying houses, having kids and buying a bunch of crap not directly related to survival are common choices, but they are not the only paths to take in life. I […]
Accidental Empathy
I sprained my ankle eight days and seven hours ago. And it’s been a looong two hundred hours. The byproduct of this has been immediate empathy for the handicapped who […]
What NaNoWriMo Taught Me
I always grumbled about NaNoWriMo being in November. What a shitty month to commit to completing a 50,000-word novel! It’s during the crazy sprint to the end of the year. […]
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