Lev Ylmaz: Procrastination

This is pretty much exactly how my day went yesterday, except that you can replace “shopping” with “lining up the apps I need” and “watching the Twilight Zone marathon” with “playing all of my favorite music to Helmut”. So I’ve got to buckle down and really get my stuff done today. From Levni Ymaz’s “Tales […]

Breakfast

I’ve decided to slow down for balance – and to delay breakfast to mid-morning (for a proper break between dinner and breakfast). I currently have the great luxury of being able to decide when to work and when to take breaks. So these days I’m doing yoga and getting some exercise in the early morning […]

Perelucci

I just got mail from Uesa Robinson, who has a vintage clothes shop on Capitol Hill. She researches her clothes, and one of them is a dress that has a label from Perelucci’s, my mother’s (Gertrud Hodgson’s) clothes boutique. How marvellous! The Perelucci name and logo was my father’s, made out of my mother’s nickname […]

Running on empty

It’s been a bit of a Formula 1 week and the race isn’t over yet. But I’ve just enjoyed a pitstop to plan and book a few days outside the circuit. Need to refuel properly and spin my wheels before I cruise back into the action. Quiet pitstop musings: A pretty clip from “What Dreams […]

What is work?

When does work start, when does it end? Is life compartmentalized into “work” and “play”? I mean, apart from private “downtime”, of course, which is nobody’s business. But what about thinking, reading, talking, surfing? When I’m surfing, am I doing so as a private individual or as a business woman? This blog is a product, […]

Spring cleaning

The birds are twittering away, and my running shoes are wet. Spring is coming. We went to the beergarden in Menterschwaige today and sat in a big puddle – or was it a small lake? – for our first outdoor beer of the season. Bliss!  Through the windows we saw a woman busily washing the […]