You have a good life, a job, a family and friends but something is missing? You’re a bit bored, you’re looking for a new challenge, a new purpose or just for something that is exclusively for you and gives you […]
Perusing other expat blogs today, I found the blog The American in Paris and one of its post had a link to this wonderful Ted Talk “Where is home?” from Siddhartha Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer. I love […]
Kalalau trail, Napali Coast State Park, Kauai After 2011, this is the second time we hiked the first part of this beautiful trail along the Napali coast. The drive from Hanalei to the trailhead next to Ke’e Beach takes about […]
I want to acknowledge my follower number 100! Yay! Thank you Rama Albadra, I will send you this mug to Germany. Here you can check out Rama’s blog.
My blog is now featured on expatsblog.com I would love and highly appreciate it if you would take a couple minutes and leave a comment on the bottom of my listing. Just click here. My position on the US listings […]
I wrote about the re-entry blues about a month ago and now I’m feeling kind of blue again! Coming back from Germany is a whole different story than coming back from a fabulous vacation though, especially when you are as lucky […]
Green Card Madness I’ve been living in this country for almost eight years now! I’ve had two different visas and in order to apply for those or to extend them, I visited the American Consulate in Frankfurt , Germany three […]
Have you ever been to Costa Rica? If not, you should definitely add it to your list of travel destinations. You don’t have a list? Then you should most definitely start one. Our family made a list of dream destinations […]
©️Doing Good Together Yesterday night I helped with a Service Fair at my daughter’s Elementary School. My neighbor Ashley started working together with the organization Doing Good Together, a non-profit that works to make volunteering and service, along with daily kindness, easy […]
My weekly ramble #1 Part I: Museum of Art and San Pedro Square on Palm Sunday I just made a new German friend who is a docent at the San Jose Museum of Art. Yesterday she invited a bunch of […]
Words of the day
Courage isn’t having
the strength to go on –
it is to go on when
you don’t have the strength.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
Hi! Hallo!
I’m Kathrin, a German who’s been living the last 16 years in the crazy world of the Silicon Valley. Even though I love our life in California, I’m still missing Köln (Cologne) and the German lifestyle. On this blog I share some of my stories and ruminate about what home really means. I’m a mother of two girls and the wife of an iSlave, a teacher, a social introvert and very passionate about the things I do.
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