elkit in wonderland

This is fine.

I blog right here.

My affiliate bookshop is at bookshop.org/shop/elkit.

“The Same Deep Water as You” is my favorite Cure song.

I was born and raised in Germany, but I have lived more of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area than in my fatherland … fatherland sounds like a loaded term these days; let’s just call it my country of origin.

A previous home had a library.

Blue is my favorite color.  

Being German, I am legally required to love bread. 

I am kind, mostly.

I am silly, mostly.

Mostly.

I live in California, just a half hour by car to the coast. I understand how lucky I am.

I don’t like flavored coffees.

My favorite thing to do is read.

I also like movies, and am keeping a watch list.

If you want to buy me a book, check out my wishlist.

I have fallen behind on my drinking. Quite sad, really.

“Ideas come to us, we don’t really create an idea, we just catch them, like fish.” – David Lynch

I used to blog right here, but sadly, the service was discontinued in September 2025, and everything is gone.

A favorite quote: “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen

You are awesome. (I know, I know, these are supposed to be bits about me, but – not every single thing has to be about me, you know?)

Argyle. I like argyle. I am happy that the EF Pro Cycling team have added it back into their kit.

I like saying “Kartoffelsalat*.” Try it, it’s fun!

But my favorite German word is “selbdritt.”

Speaking of German, Nazis are bad. Wherever in the world they are. I’ve been participating in my local FiftyFiftyOne protests because, coming from the land of Nazis, I feel an added responsibility to speak out. I did not expect to move here from the land of Nazis and end up in a land of Nazis.

In a related matter, genocide is also bad, and indefensible. Free Gaza!

I keep asking: “How do you know?”

Another favorite quote: “The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed.” – William Gibson

Prince. David Bowie. PJ Harvey. Robert Palmer. P!nk. Garbage. Elvis Costello. Warren Zevon. David Sylvian. Robbie Williams. That’s who I listen to the most. Who did I forget?

Oh, right – I forgot to mention Hamilton, which I’ve been obsessed with for several years now. I know most of it – I’d say about 95% – by heart.

Here are some either-or/this or that questions I answered.

I have two black thumbs and usually kill all plants, but I learned to garden successfully with a hydroponic setup, the Farmstand. I passed it on to a master gardener couple when I moved into an apartment with a north-facing balcony.

I don’t eat much bacon any more. Bacon had a mom.

I go one step at a time. If I fail, I failed one step, not the whole journey.

I am happy about the hummingbird feeders. These tiny birds are such incredible creatures.

One more quote: “The trick is to keep breathing.” – Garbage (but my favorite Garbage song I think is Milk. Or Tell Me Where It Hurts. Or maybe Blood for Poppies. So many great ones!)

Knitting is a good occupation for my hands.

I had a cat named Streetpanda. But he wasn’t really my cat – I was his human. (You know that dogs have masters, and cats have servants, right?)

Yet another quote: “Waves are the practice of water.” – Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (this beauty is courtesy of my favorite crone, Grace Davis)

*Kartoffelsalat means potato salad. I don’t know why I find it so satisfying to say it.