The day back to work after the holiday is hardly the best one of the year. I woke up with a vague sense of depression. I was in a daze. I had only been away a week, but I didn’t know how I was ever going to work again. Could I still do it? Then …
Category Archives: Wonderluster Wandering
lessons from the edge : New York City
We are in New York so I will keep this brief. I am feeling distracted by life. Life is happening. Life is all around, life is walking fast, life has places to be, life is late, but life is still enjoying the sunshine. Life is sitting at a pavement café now and eating organic sweet-pea …
heart of clouds
Let me be really honest with you, as much as I would love to write something really upbeat and inspirational, there’s a grey cloud over my heart and all I really just want to talk about is how much the weather here sucks. You see there’s this jet stream thingy and because of the warming …
Warning- this blog post contains nudity
Let’s talk about something serious here people…. Switzerland and Sweden – do you really know the difference? This is how the conversation goes 99% of the time when a Swiss person encounters a foreigner elsewhere in the world. Guy : So where are you from? Martin : Switzerland Guy : Ahh that’s where the hot …
la vie en rose
La vie en rose! La vie en rose, they say. But what does it all mean? Literally translated, ‘la vie en rose’ is life in pink, the equivalent to seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses or rosy hues. And as Edith Piaf sings, “When he takes me in his arms And speaks softly to me, …
great expectations
In case y’all don’t know too much about Switzerland, besides what can be gathered from a Lindt packet, let me just tell you that she is not just a pretty face. This is a land of contradiction and controversy. Practicality, progressiveness and tradition sit side by side, somewhat harmoniously – just like the three languages …
My friend Patience
Whoever said patience is a virtue is a freaking genius. Don’t run after the bus, let the bus come to you. There’s a lot we can learn about life from public transport. And right now it seems that waiting to receive what I want is a bit like waiting for the train in India. The train will come – …
The Crack
So hands up, who of y’all out there has an i-phone? (I’ll pretend I can hear more than a pin dropping). So i-phone owners, I’m speaking directly to you when I say… Do you ever feel like you’re on crack? I mean, this is how I imagine it to be. So here I go, speaking …
Where is the big sausage?
So you want to open a small business in Switzerland? The first thing you’ve got to think about are the costs. First, paying your part-time employee 25 francs per hour and then don’t forget to budget in the cost of your big polyester (I can’t believe it’s not plastic) sausage, croissant, ice-cream, fill in the …
Cherry Storm
Glistening ruby marbles of sweet tartiness, smooth porcelain skin, bloody flesh heart, lip-staining, succulent… You’d have to be mad not to love cherries. And what could be more luxurious than a bowl full of cherries right? A whole bowl mom! And then another bowl the next night…and then the next night. A carnival of cherries, …
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