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Dec 18, 2014, 12:28 AM

This time of the year, when it gets dark early in the afternoon in Berlin, I start my day with cottage cheese and finish it with a sweet milky dessert. The cottage cheese is less creamy here than in...

Nov 16, 2014, 7:40 AM

Freedom song. A Litany

I’ve been called a witness to history recently. Although the fact is true in a way—I was working in Berlin when the Wall fell, so I have first-hand memories of those breathtaking times—it sounded funny as it made me...

Oct 22, 2014, 1:33 AM

I’m eating sabras. That’s my way of taking Israel with me when I have to leave the country: inside, the sweet juice adding another small roll of flab on my hip and tiny needles itching under my skin. I...

Oct 7, 2014, 11:24 PM

Lost in transportation

Using public transport in Israel reminds me on the way I felt when I got my first iPhone: lots of new features and apps and no handbook to figure out how to find and personalize them. Until today, it...

Sep 22, 2014, 10:02 PM

Tel Aviv—Berlin: a Time Travel

I know what time it is. Ever since I’ve returned to Berlin for the summer, I am aware of the minutes passing, the hours clustering into afternoons and rolling off my fingertips. I know what time it is. Exactly. I...

Jun 25, 2014, 8:32 PM

“Bäumchen wechsle dich” – Musical Chairs, Israeli style

When I was a young girl, we used to play a game called “Bäumchen wechsle dich”. The group sits in a circle of chairs, except one person: there is always one chair less than there are players. Upon the...

May 12, 2014, 10:26 PM

Men without diapers

Israeli men don't seem wimpy, so why can’t they seem to make it to the next toilet?

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About Me

Britta R. Kollberg is a poet as well as a graduate mathematician from Berlin, (East) Germany. After the fall of the Berlin wall, she has worked as an education and social services manager for more than twenty years. She writes from Tel Aviv.