New year, new 'Frau'

Say hello to AFNL 2.0!

This newsletter used to be a blog and it was almost a Tiktok.

(You can thank me later.)

I took some good advice from writer Zulie Rane and decided to focus on my strengths.

When I started writing the blog version of Alte Frau, New Life in 2022, I wanted to do two things: share our journey as new immigrants to Berlin; and highlight things about Berlin that maybe people outside Germany weren’t aware of - the long history, the art, the culture, the counter-culture, everything.

But I found that I got bogged down in all of the background work of building and maintaining a website - and I already had a personal website I was neglecting! I could never get the blog to look or work the way that I wanted. And I spent so much time fiddling, that I rarely got to writing.

So, by moving to Substack, I’m letting them take care of the back end and I will focus on communicating - writing about all the things I want people to know about living in Berlin.

It’s an awesome city - though not for the faint of hea…