28 Jul
Setting Priorities and Other Nuisances

People who know my non-blogosphere persona well enough can confirm that I am one of these people who constantly have at least three balls up in the air at once. Setting priorities? Naw, not for me, dude. There’s just too much interesting stuff out there that has to be explored.
Arriving in Berlin, exhausted by a [...]
23 Jul
Short-Term Gain Vs. Long-Term Pain

Guess it is fair to say that writers tend to reflect a lot – either on paper or in their head. Combine that with a diploma course in coaching and you end up with a freaking mirror ball. And this is exactly how I currently feel like.
When I started my coaching diploma only four weeks [...]
15 Jul
Writer’s Rejection Recovery Programme

Us writers are sensitive folk. That’s why we can pick stuff out from our environment and digest it into a story that is funny, heartbreaking or thrilling. It comes in handy when you need to tune in with a character, too. It’s less handy though when rejection, this bitter companion of creative expression, rears its [...]
14 Jul
Going for Extremes

So we witness Berlin’s hottest spell (37-39 degrees in the shade, anyone? Anyone?) evvaa. After its coldest and snowiest winter since 1947. But c’mon Berlin. Is that all you’ve got? I am not impressed.
Because although in many regards I am a middle-of-the road person, neither prone to extreme emotions, crazy ideas (apart from jumping out [...]
02 Jul
Writer’s Digestion

Today’s comment of Merrilee, an Australian blogging writer whose great mix of insight and sarcasm I very recently discovered,  on my blog post on inspiration, triggered a thought that I keep wondering about:
Is inspiration a spark, quick and unpredictable, a divine spur of the moment? Or is it rather the result of putting enough experiences, impressions and books [...]
28 Jun
Oracles, Old Prejudices and Other Oddities

Admittedly, my knowledge about football doesn’t go much further than knowing it includes two teams of … 15? So why do I find myself fascinated by this year’s World Cup, and even writing a second post about it? Hmmm, it might have something to do with the fact that for the first time in my [...]
23 Jun
Berlinarium: Gentrification

It’s confession time. I was blissfully unaware of this term until I entered the Berlin sphere. But now I know. Gentrification (in short: the up-grading of inner-city areas with redone buildings, restaurants, bars) is bad. Baaaad. It is so evil that everybody I hear talking about it has a thoughtfully furrowed eyebrow, and this concern [...]