If I passed you on the street today and didn’t say hello, it’s because I couldn’t recognize your face. No offense, I’m blind today. After going to an eye doctor (ophthalmologist?) yesterday about a strangely persistent inflammation in both eyes, I’ve been commanded in no uncertain words to leave my contact lenses out for at [...]

Last night was election night in Germany and I was wearing a random yellow t-shirt. Before running out the door on a bike run to Prenzlauer Berg, I put on my trusty black corduroy jacket. Soon I was biking across Kreuzberg proudly flaunting the yellow-black team colours of what will likely be the new ruling [...]

ago Yuhang and I got married in a completely serendipitous way in Sweden. We needed to get married in Europe and it turned out that Germany was going to give us way too many paperwork headaches for not being citizens and having the gall to be from other countries. I think one of the requirements [...]

I’d love to just write and it’d all be beautiful but I’m just putting this out there non-edited for the main reason that I can’t stand to have another day go by and have nothing but blankness up here. There have been so many — so many — things happening in the last few days [...]