Tomorrow is Karneval!! Actually in Germany it already is Weiberfastnacht – one of the biggest days for true fans of Karneval. If you’re following my blog or IG, you know that we are celebrating the first real Karnevalsparty in the […]
The 5th season of Karneval is in full swing in my hometown of Cologne and other areas of the Rhineland. I miss it a lot. You don’t know Karneval? Here you can read a bit about what Karneval in Germany […]
It’s 2019 and it’s been eight months since my last link love post and it’s time to get back in a sharing routine. Here are some articles, videos, books, movies and podcasts that I recently read, watched or clipped to […]
This year is almost over and I really wanted to write one last blogpost. I haven’t written a lot in the last seven months. It’s been a very busy year and I just didn’t take the time to write. I […]
Today I hosted the first official Cöllefornia-Stammtisch at Ludwig’s German Table in San José. A Stammtisch = German for “regulars’ table”, is an informal group meeting held on a regular basis. It is not a structured meeting, but rather a […]
Einladung zum Cöllefornia-Stammtisch in San José Hallo zusammen, hello everyone! I’m calling all KölnerInnen! Du bist aus Köln? Dort geboren, aufgewachsen oder du hast dort studiert? Du hast einige Jahre in Köln gewohnt, deine Kinder sind dort geboren, du vermisst […]
It is about time to write again. My last post was end of May and even though I wrote a few articles for Heimat Abroad, I didn’t write anything just for myself. I’ve missed blogging, but life was very busy here, […]
Kinderhotels – Entspannter (Heimat-)Urlaub für alle Die Sommerferien stehen vor der Tür! Sommer break is right around the corner! Schon Pläne für den Familienurlaub bzw. Heimaturlaub gemacht? Did you already make plans for your family vacation? Dann könnte dieser Artikel […]
Meditation makes my day complete. I’ve been using meditation apps for more than a year now. This post has been sitting in my draft folder for a while now and it is time to be published. Last May I took […]
Finally! It’s been more than a month since my last blog post. May has been crazy busy. It was filled with end of the year school events, concerts, decluttering, a birthday party, our 10-year Caliversary and an Instagram expat challenge […]
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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