A way of life
This morning my duty was to bake cake. My daughter's favorite cake is citron cake. With icing, lots of icing. My son said it's pretty simple: "Mom, a cake isn't a cake without icing". And so it is with life. Life also needs a little frosting. Some humor, some wit, some fanciness, a little bit of glamour, More +
The photo of this little girl passed me several times this week. I only have to close my eyes, and I see it. It has burned itself into my memory. Usually, images create hundreds of associated words in my head. But this one is different. It makes me speechless. The few words that do come up are so sad, More +
It was my daughters Birthday, we were about to have dinner, the doorbell rang and my son stood there furious, his eyes brimmed with tears, his t-shirt ripped in pieces. What started off as a silly game resulted in a rather big drama. The story: 4 boys around the age of 10 played a camera team covering the More +
Last week during a larger company meeting, I made a joke. I didn't go down too well . . . It was a silly little joke about women. I thought it was quite funny, but some of my US counterparts clarified that it wasn't in line with the aim to improve the perception of women in the workplace. I was a bit More +
Today my daughter is celebrating her 9th Birthday. Already a while ago people started to ask me what they could get her as a present. Not an easy question as already a few years ago Maja started to realize she has everything her heart desires. She is as we say in German "wunschlos glücklich". There is no More +
When I started off this blog, I found an organization called Embrace Global. They greatly impressed me. What started off as a student assignment became an amazing organization saving hundred thousands of lives. I have been thinking about ways to support them since. But big plans usually do not move that More +
Last week I wrote up my 5 tips to get the most out of your Monday. One of them was to create a Monday playlist. Well, that is what I did this weekend. In German, we would call it a colorful mix. I am as usual slightly all over the place. But I love these songs. Here my "travel through time and style" Monday More +
Albert Einstein on more than one occasion explained the importance of imagination: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” He was by far not More +
On Friday's I go to yoga. I have the most wonderful yoga teacher. Yoga helps me to balance out my week. Yesterday I got to the fitness studio and was told the class was cancelled because Hyun had an accident. Luckily I was told he will be ok again soon. So there I stand. I did not even bring any sports More +
After my very long post from yesterday here something light, something creative. Something I wanted to start my Friday with. A while back my mom shared this stop motion film from 2012 with me. It shows the celebration project for the 10th anniversary of the University of Health Sciences in Lausanne I More +