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Jana, German in the City (NYC). Lifestyle blogger. World traveler; Istanbul, cat and food lover.

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My 5 Favorite Books I Read in 2024
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Monday Morning Mood #2
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My Word of the Year 2025
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New York City’s First Snowstorm in Winter 2020-21

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Recipe: Healthy red winter salad

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Beauty: 6 Products to Combat Dry Winter Skin

Beauty: 6 Products to Combat Dry Winter Skin

Favorite Recent Beauty Buys

Posted onNovember 19, 2020November 13, 2021Leave a comment

Until October I was almost only interested in skincare products. I can’t even remember when I last wore so little makeup like in 2020. On the other hand, I have used (up) plenty of care products. I guess my facial Read More …

CategoriesBeautyTagsBeauty, Huda Beauty, janavar, Korres, Lancome, Life, Lifestyle, Nars, natasha denona, Oxyfresh, Sephora, Supergoop, Too Faced

Praising My Desktop Computer

Posted onNovember 17, 2020November 13, 2021Leave a comment

I always used to have a desktop computer. When I still lived with my parents, during university, during teacher training, in my five years in Istanbul. Most of these times, I also had a laptop: a heavy old iBook (the Read More …

CategoriesLifeTagsjanavar, Life, Lifestyle, New York, New York City

Week in review: 9 – 15 November 2020

Posted onNovember 15, 2020November 13, 2021Leave a comment

Overall this week felt a lot quieter than the previous ones. With the presidential election over, we finally slept sound again. For us the result also means that we will stay in the U.S. for at least the next few Read More …

CategoriesLifeTagsImmer wieder sonntags, janavar, Life, Lifestyle, New York, New York City, week in review, Wochenrückblick

The Books I Read in October 2020

Posted onNovember 14, 2020January 19, 20251 Comment

With a full week of fall break in October, I was sure I would read a lot. But then we had kittens and we also took them on vacation with us to Maine. And then Rich’s family also came to Read More …

CategoriesBücherTagsBooks, Bücher, janavar, Life, Lifestyle

Week in review: 2 – 8 November 2020

Posted onNovember 8, 2020November 13, 2021Leave a comment

What a week! Most of the time we were just really anxious about the election. Then we woke up once more yesterday morning without any clear result. I had just sat down to do some grading when we heard people Read More …

CategoriesLifeTagsImmer wieder sonntags, janavar, Life, Lifestyle, New York, New York City, week in review, Wochenrückblick

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Jana, German blogger: Manhattanite since July 2019. ❤ Canavar 2011 - 2020.
Lived in Istanbul from 2010 to 2015 and in Boston from 2015 to 2019.
Wife, mom of two girls & two cats.

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