The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Anne Frank had just turned thirteen. Like any other adolescent, she undergoes physical and emotional changes that are a source of both curiosity and frustrations that she records in her diary as letters to an imaginary friend named “Kitty”. However, Anne Frank is no ordinary schoolgirl; she is a Jew living in Amsterdam during the [...]

Berlin Stories: Part 1

“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.” – Christopher Isherwood, 1930 Waiting. That’s what happens when you get older. When [...]

Three Women

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” — James Joyce As the hotel elevator doors opened, I wondered what my mother and grandmother would say to me. I was going to join them for a tour through Europe. I had not seen my family since I [...]

Wandering Through Berlin

I always looked forward to weekends in Berlin. Those were the days I would allow myself to wander. I’d even purposefully let myself get lost: If the way home was to turn right, I would go left. Whether it was a perfect day or freezing out, whether I was gung-ho, hungover, or just feeling plain [...]

Berlin Beginnings

I miss Berlin. It’s funny how I ended up moving to a city that I hadn’t even planned on visiting. I was on the first leg of my solo backpacking trip, in Paris, and things had gotten a bit chaotic. I needed to leave and hopped on the first train out. It was the train [...]

Friday Finds to Get You Through This Complex Sphere of Life (04/30/10)

Wohoo! Welcome to another long weekend. “Dancers Among Us” by Jordan Matter (“Photographer Jordan Matter took still frames of dancers from the Paul Taylor and Martha Graham Dance Companies performing interesting moves all around New York City.” via NBCNY ) Tomorrow is May 1. The date close to my heart. It’s the day I fell [...]

Friday Finds to Get You Through This Complex Sphere of Life

via someone’s Tumblr Ah…the weekend is here again. …what the heck took it so long? Happy Earth Day…whatever that means. I read a quote that made me LOL (Lay Off Liquor): “Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.” — Aldous Huxley But then again, Mr. Huxley is the man who wrote about a global orgy, [...]

Missing a Cold December

There was once a chance I didn’t take and I am the better for it. The choice was between Europe and a possible life with my then-boyfriend. Romantic films would often lead the heroine taking the latter choice, but I didn’t. I thought I was in love but when I look back, I know it [...]

A May Day Affair

A May Day Affair A New Landscape, A New Day Looking to escape Parisian days of intoxication and excess, I hopped on the first train out. I arrived in Berlin at dawn. As the glow of the first morning light filled the station, the past was now 500 kilometres away. Grabbing my beaten-down camera, I [...]

Berlin, I love you

The air has begun to chill. The days fly by as the nights seems to last forever. A new cycle has started. I’m going to miss Berlin. I settled in Berlin about the same time as I am leaving it. My birthday is in two days. I have new passport, with new blank pages. If [...]