Salted caramel ice cream. Sweet and sour chicken. Balsamic strawberries. Our palates seem to like those opposing flavors of sugary and sharp. I’ve been thinking a lot about the word “bittersweet” lately. To me it means happy with a twinge of sadness. It’s a season of change right now. There are graduations taking…
This is for my Dad who passed just one year ago (November 3, 2016) at not even 53 years of age. It happened all of the sudden. Out of nowhere. There was no sign at all that this was going to happen. Just two weeks before I had gone to visit him. I was even sobbing on Skype…
Maybe the best part of working in a hotel is that you get lots of connections and lots of discounts. Although the salary is really bad, you still get to see a lot and people try their best to help you doing this. I simply love staying somewhere else than home, no matter if it…
I am 24 years old, I grew up in a middle class family, I graduated from high school with pretty good grades in a 500.000 people city, the industrial heart of Germany. Many of my friends study law, medicine or engineering. I work in a hotel. Before a certain law was published last year,…
Welcome to Small Talk. This weekly column will provide opinionated pieces on every lifestyle topic imaginable, with particular emphasis on those that are trending now. I do my research, provide the facts, and give my opinion – you decide the rest. How do we know what is trending now? What should the phrase mean…