Author: JuliaThekla
Lass uns blau machen!
Meine Mutter und ich waren gestern wandern. In den Vogesen. Frühmorgens sind wir los, um nicht im Frühtau, aber wenigstens vormittags zu Berge zu ziehen, fallera. Wir wanderten allerdings gar nicht so viel, und wie üblich hatte ich vorsorglich ein Buch eingepackt, denn ich weiß, irgendwann – und meine Mutter hat die Route so geplant,…
Social Media Solidarity?
Yesterday, social media became literally a very dark place – black squares all over to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement and raise a voice against racism, to demand justice for the George Floyds in this world and as a sign of a new and sudden high alert and awareness towards white supremacy…
The Idea
I have never seen Into the Wild and I have never seen Wild – somehow I feel the need to make that absolutely clear, maybe because both movies caused a wave of new hikers on their self-finding paths, and especially the latter resulted in female hiker numbers rocketing through the sky. I’m not saying that…
Buon APEtito!
Buon Giorno! Mi chiamo Julia e sono tedesca. Habito a Friburgo e non parlo italiano which is why that’s it with the Italian and back to English. Even though it is such a beautiful language and I’ve been meaning to learn it for a long time and actually started once and was quite decent two…
Petit Déjeuner chez nous
Quarantine = Baking Time. But then any time is baking time and I‘m only self-isolating not quarantining and that was a bad rhyme anyway, a so-called unreiner Reim, and we don’t want no unrein, dirty, contaminated stuff, just everything disinfected and hand-washed often. And I can do better. Wait for it. There was a young…
The Mountains Are Calling And I Must Go.
This is a new section on the blog! For a big, big endeavour. And also a big, big maybe. Due to the current events aka Covid, it is absolutely uncertain if I will be even allowed to travel and do what I’ve been planning for months now. But hope is (second) last to die and…
Ick bin ein Amerikaner.
Despite my great proclamations of being unproductive – and I really am with anything related to getting my shit together – it seems lockdown finally unleashed the BAKER CAT in me and whilst I’m not gonna join the sourdough club- I live above a bakery, next to a bakery, across from a bakery so there…
Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche
….is that title of a satirical masculine cookbook by Bruce Feirstein. And this is a recipe. Not from the book. And counterproductive for all alpha males out there. So everyone with a fragile masculinity should probably stop reading and start on more testosteroic activities – The Manly Art of Knitting should do the trick, another…
Stuck Home Syndrome
The probably obligatory (and four weeks behind) quarantine commentary you‘ve not been waiting for. But what else are you doing anyway? Hello from within the Covid-proof walls of my apartment in the middle of Freiburg. It’s March the 653rd or so, I lost count. Anyway, it‘s anno Coroni and like all of you, I’m living…