Pieces of my life have a tendency to fall into the right places at the right time – even if at last minute. Two weeks before I left for Brussels, I didn’t even have an apartment there, two weeks later I found myself in a 200 sqm loft at 500 Euro a month. Keep your [...]
I don’t remember when I started thinking or better dreaming of it – as the glass facade rose in front of me I kind of had to pinch myself for being there and for still not understanding that yes indeed it was me. The New York Times to me always seemed like a myth, a [...]
After nearly ten hours on a plane and another three in the queue I was finally allowed to put my feet on american soil. “Don’t expect anything else than the great depression”, we were warned today by the people at the International Center for Journalists referring to the mood in American newsrooms. Five minutes later [...]
I looked out over the ice, player’s scattered everywhere celebrating Klagenfurt’s 29th title. They had won it in style, in a true final game the audience holding its breath while the seconds ticked away and the team held on to a narrow 2-1 lead. I stood there and looked at the people I had been [...]