Somewhere in the beginning of August, my job coach called me all excited. She had just heard about a job she thought would be a good fit for me: A position as office manager of an outdoor swimming pool. When I asked her if she could send me the job posting, she told me she […]
Wonderful
Germany’s Service Desert. Case 3.
We have been living in Germany for three years now, and I guess I/we have slowly been socialized back into European society with its lower standards on customer service. But I am still posting this event from May 2017. It was this experience of Germany’s service desert that triggered this blog. Case 3: The Galeria […]
The Instagram Interpretation of the Allegory of the Cave
I have been on Instagram for a little less than a year now and at the time, it was a new world opening up to me. At first, I experienced Instagram as opening a little treasure chest with things of beauty inside of it, every picture a piece of eye candy ready to eat at […]
One Hundred Years of Solidarity?
I was planning on writing about Grube Messel (Pit Messel in English). I still will, but not today. I started reading the newspaper and my Facebook posts and got upset. Today, we are remembering the end of the First World War one hundred years ago. A very important event. In the First World War, Belgium […]
This too shall pass
I am still not back to my usual blogging routine, which frustrates me. But life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans, right. So, for today, just some random advice. To honor friendship. Almost five years ago, I had a horrible month. Really horrible. A month to never forget. For […]