Fires & Floods
When we booked our tickets for this trip, the fires had just started. As September rolled into October, family marked themselves safe on Facebook, and the Australian media began rolling… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Heimat
Coexist
This extraordinary summer continues abated. The entire country seems to be in agreement that this is the best summer ever, even though Greece and Sweden are on fire and these… Continue Reading
Unearthed
Even with the long flight and time it took to settle the kids, even with some truly magnificent toddler meltdowns as we all grappled with time change, climate change, living… Continue Reading
Heimat, Identity, Life in Kiel
Of Acorns and Squirrels
When I was a girl, courtesy of my mother’s own girlhood literary leanings, I read and re-read and read again, until the pages were torn and the covers fell off,… Continue Reading
Golden Moments
The reason we hopped a plane four weeks after I gave birth, was to attend my sister’s wedding in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. There are few other things that… Continue Reading
You Again
Oh hello there. I didn’t see you come in. Who let you in? I thought I’d closed the back door. You really have to stop sneaking up on me like… Continue Reading
Heimat, Travel: Denmark, Vrist
On Real Beaches
When I first moved to Kiel and started teaching the north Germans, I couldn’t help but notice a theme. Whenever the topic of our daily small talk (‘small talk’ is… Continue Reading
Heimat, North Germany, Schleswig-Holstein
A Peculiar Beauty
Late yesterday afternoon, while the sun was still in an eggshell blue sky, I walked down to the water with two of my mum friends. The babies were bundled, die Lüdde knocked… Continue Reading
Growing Up
She won’t remember any of it, but my daughter had a summer just like the ones her Mum did, year after year, growing up in Australia. We stayed at a… Continue Reading