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This Week I'm...

moving from Berlin to
Brooklyn.

July 15, 2019

attending a political rally in

Malta.

May 20, 2019

hiking in the High Atlas
Mountains.

February 15, 2019

watching Insecure.

February 1, 2019

rereading Michael Pollan.

January 24, 2019

thinking Roma is a
masterpiece.

January 2, 2019

biking through Rock Creek

Park.

December 27, 2018

meeting Japan's last sento
master.

December 16, 2018

hiking 20km up a mountain

in eastern Germany.

November 23, 2018

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surprising my Pa in NY
for his 70th.

November 11, 2018

co-working at the 
Michelberger Hotel.

October 29, 2018

hosting the family in Berlin.

October 20, 2018

buying a new journal.

October 5, 2018

eating my way through night

markets in Taiwan.

September 21, 2018

swatting away mosquitoes

in the Bayou.

September 12, 2018

duckpin bowling with the

'rents.

September 8, 2018

interviewing a lighthouse

keeper in Capri.

August 28, 2018

runway running in Tempelhofer
Feld

July 14, 2018

rooting for Mexico in the
World Cup

June 27, 2018

getting sunburned in Panama

June 7, 2018

hiking the Pyrenees

May 17, 2018

back in Berlin, running on
the Landwehr Canal.

May 2, 2018

eating seaweed in Northern
Ireland.

April 18, 2018

learning the difference
between "pici" and "stringozzi"
pastas.

April 14, 2018

studying Japanese
"soundscapes"

April 11, 2018

in Civita di Bagnoregio,

population: 7.

April 2, 2018

still listening to Day Wave, a 
year later.

March 21, 2018

talking to strangers on Italian
trains.

March 13, 2018

planning a temporary move
from Berlin to Umbria.

February 19, 2018

learning all about Mangal
Dosha.

February 10, 2018

squatting (and reporting)
in Sofia.

January 21, 2018

finishing City of Exiles.

October 20, 2017

ironically protesting against American Nazis in Germany.

August 17, 2017

moving to a new flat.

July 25, 2017

working with some remarkable people from Syria and Afghanistan inside an abandoned Nazi-era airport in Berlin. 

July 9, 2017

supremely enjoying May Day in Kreuzberg.

May 1, 2017

enthralled by Sapiens.

April 4, 2017

getting lost at ITB in Berlin.

March 8, 2017

still watching this Yuck video in 2017.

February 15, 2017

showing up, diving in, and staying at it.

January 21, 2017

feeling absolutely terrified after that first press conference.

January 12, 2017

January 2, 2017

quickly running out of pages in this journal.

December 22, 2016

December 10, 2016

November 17, 2016

geek-ing out over the November issue of WIRED that Obama guest edited.

October 19, 2016

reminded that Michael Ian Black's Twitter is the best thing on the Internet.

October 13, 2016

pretty sure no one in any locker room has ever said that.

October 10, 2016

burying myself in Texture.

learning that people in Hamburg

are called Hamburgers.

September 16, 2016

back on my favorite island: Sardinia

September 7, 2016

getting Aufenthaltstitel-ed

August 2, 2016

returning to the same fountain I jumped in with hundreds of other Romans when Italy won the World Cup in 2006.

July 24, 2016

watching Euro 2016 at Brandenburg Gate

June 12, 2016

April 30, 2016

playing Sign O' The Times on loop.

April 22, 2016

moving to Berlin.

March 2, 2016

supremely enjoying David Carr's 
The Night of the Gun.

January 18, 2016

wondering if anyone else is super creeped out by Ken Kratz's voice.

January 6, 2016

adding a second bedroom to our
tiny house.

December 2, 2015

catching letters in Louisville.

November 24, 2015

exploring a former fallout shelter buried under downtown DC.

November 13, 2015

admiring Icelandic emo ponies.

October 30, 2015

digging the Vallis Alps EP.

October 22, 2015

wondering where Leon Bridges 
gets his jackets.

October 16, 2015

recovering from a devastating 
Scrabble defeat.

October 11, 2015

biking 45 miles on the W&OD Trail.

October 10, 2015

faile-ing at the BK Museum with this stunner.

October 4, 2015

using a block of cheese as
a confidant.

September 28, 2015

making a bookshelf out of pipes.

September 20, 2015

convinced someone recently
died in my motel room in San Bruno. 

September 16, 2015

tying the knot in RVA.

September 5, 2015

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