My friend, Kate

Kate is my almost relative who let me stay with her in NYC while I was there last winter trying to make connections and find a job. NYC didn't work out, but I'm so glad Kate and I have become close friends.

She wrote an article for an online women's magazine called Hopscotch. Read it and see just how great she is.

Her concluding thought: "Germany ceased to be a distant, exotic place. I began to love and regard it as the familiar home of some of my own family, and as an essential piece of my history and identity."