FYI Archives - Luci Westphal

Cormorants, Florida, birds, black, orange beak, blue eyes

Refreshed

Testing the air and soon the water.

Jumping Over My Own Shadow: My First Indie Market

In German, we have an expression that translates to “jumping over one’s own shadow” and means to do something that doesn’t come natural to you and is unsettling, even scary to you. It’s usually something that is not scary or even a big deal to others – but just outside of your personal comfort zone or natural behavior.

First Impressions From My Florida Garden

Leaving behind my thriving Colorado garden when moving to Florida 2 1/2 months ago was especially sad because it was in late spring, just…

Why mass shootings are a reason I’m making “All’s Well and Fair”

One year ago today, I was in Gainesville, Florida, to film the 3rd installment of my documentary project All’s Well and Fair. The next morning,…

7 Year-Anniversary + The Last MIN Episode

Sooo… I had the very best intentions to publish a vlog in celebration of today’s 7-year anniversary of the weekly 1-minute Moving Postcard videos and…

Looking for happy new 2015 summer songs!

As I’m in the process of putting together the final mix of my favorite songs of the 2nd quarter of 2015, something I suspected is…

Lily Allen – “Somewhere Only We Know” (MusicMonday)

Tonight, Scott and I are flying back to New York City for a few days. If you know me then you will have an idea…

The Afghan Whigs – “Gentlemen” (MusicMonday)

Beware, this is a special, quite personal album Music Monday post. Thanks to this more detailed article on stereogum, I just realized that the The…

Überlin Berlin Portrait Photo Shoot

James watching Zoë take a picture Last week James Glazebrook and Zoë Noble of the fabulous Berlin blog überlin published a new article in their…

3 Years! … and a big change

On the day of the 3-year anniversary of my web series In A Berlin Minute aka In A Brooklyn Minute I spontaneously decided to make…

Berlin Bears / Bärenzwinger – In A Berlin Minute (Week 157)

Berlin Bears / Bärenzwinger – In A Berlin Minute (Week 157) from Luci Westphal on Vimeo. Since 1280 the coat of arms, mascot and symbol…

New Website! > Moving Postcard

Moving Postcard Logo — Theoretically planned for many, many months… then in the works for several weeks… now finally finished: my new website: MovingPostcard.com! On…