Connecting Across Cultures
Forty has been a pretty amazing and memorable year for me, so as I turn 41, I thought I’d do a swift review of my personal top-ten milestones of this past year. 10. My First Marathon! Technically, this was a year and one week ago. I ran the Paris Marathon one week before turning 40!…
“Coffee or tea?” Abdul asked when I entered the breakfast room. It was November 30th. I had woken up, gotten ready, and gone to breakfast as usual that morning — although it was anything but a usual day. “Coffee, thank you.” I sat at one of the breakfast tables and unwrapped a few slices of…
Recently I found myself back in Germany, only two-hundred kilometers northwest of my birthplace (Mainz) in the city of DΓΌsseldorf, strolling along the Rhine River with my friend, Tracy. I’d first met Tracy at a German-language meet-up in Seattle over seven years earlier, before she moved back East, to Boston. These days Tracy’s been living…