Writer, the: a withdrawn, slightly neurotic and somewhat socially challenged individual who is happiest in the company of a pen+paper/typewriter/laptop.
Why, dear Lord, can’t this cliché work for me, too? Only a couple of weeks out of my over-driving internet-business past and into my new writer’s life I already started to succumb to cabin fever. [...]
Are you one of those people feeling itchy when there is no “close doors” button in a lift? Whose attention span lasts for 160 signs max.? Or works, gulp, in the internet industry? Then surely you, too dream of an escape from fast-paced-environment-hell.
Quick, over here then – safe yourself into the world of a yet [...]
How do you know you’re not living in Dublin but Berlin? Well, try to jaywalk and feel the difference. No mothers – kids clinging to their hands – scrambling ahead of you. No friendly Guards keeping the peace by turning a blind eye on the whole trek or even joining what they can’t beat anyway. No, [...]
Berlin breathes history. That sounds like an awful cliché. But far from any Hop-on-hop-off tour spiel, it is plain true – an everyday errand can offer a blast from the sometimes not-so-glorious past.
As happened the other day, when I went to the local revenue office, of all places. A cold and wintery day, a drab [...]
Last week I realized I am in deep trouble. Because I seem to hate writing. I lived a big lie all along. Or how is it possible the number one passion I state in any survey/online profile/conversation is in fact the task that I keep prancing around, putting off, procrastinating, distracting myself from the most?
So [...]
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