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my ’90s music zine, or how i became a writer
The earliest sign I was meant to be in magazines came in junior high school. One of the English teachers’ flagship assignments was the magazine project: Each of us had to create (in the pre-computer...
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my german reunification
I’ve felt kind of radio silent this summer, and there’s a good reason for it. I’m in the middle of three months in Europe, with my headquarters in Germany. To the casual observer, it might seem like...
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favorites for the year
I really enjoy taking care of business in the latter days of December. My inbox and apartment are never cleaner; my goals for the coming months and year never so precisely defined. In the spirit of...
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PS I moved to Berlin
Though it’s been a minute since I last posted, I’ve still been updating my reading list and linking to my recent work. There’s been a reason for my radio silence: I moved to Berlin this spring! After...
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Deciphering century-old postcard drama
I have a habit of falling down rabbit holes. This week it was deciphering a 100-year-old postcard in old German script that a friend of a friend posted on Instagram: What nosy person can resist reading...
View ArticleMy favorite things of 2018
Normally the freelance journalist’s life is an endless cycle of pitching, waiting, scrambling, panicking and pitching again. This year I’ve been spoiled with ongoing engagements with select editorial...
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crochet their names
Craft is a calming, meditative act for many of us. Working with yarn, especially, means working through knots and complex problems. Craft is also joyous and a communal act about creating something that...
View ArticleHow To Berlin
I’ve wanted to share what I’ve learned in my nearly four years living in Berlin, and it’s now an e-book available on Amazon: How To Berlin! I moved to Berlin in 2015, and even though I had the...
View Articlea new magazine about people and pay
A little more than a year ago, I started working on a very exciting project with Storythings, a creative agency based in Brighton. They were looking for an editor to lead a new business publication; I...
View Articlein praise of silliness
Over the course of a few recording sessions, me and my friend Kevin came up with a party song that is totally our own (aside from the samples of speeches from Angela Merkel). We finished "Wir steigen...
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