Novel Adventurers

By Heidi Noroozy Tram drivers in Gotha, GDR Photo by Felix O (CC BY-SA 2.0) It’s 1981 and I’m on my way to Marxism class in the...

Vintage train in Bad Doberan, Germany Photo by Felix O.   By Heidi Noroozy As a child, I had fantasies about living the life of...

By Heidi Noroozy Credit: Morn the Gorn Gastronomical delight is not something I associate with Leipzig, Germany. At least not when ...

By Heidi Noroozy   I’ve made it a lifelong practice to seek out unusual vacation spots. In fact, it’s a bit of a family tradition. Whe...

By Heidi Noroozy City Tower, Leipzig Photo by Dundak Everyone should get lost in a foreign country at least once in life. It’s the be...

Several decades ago, I enrolled in a university in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to study German language and literature with a...

St. Jerome, patron saint of translators Years ago, in graduate school, a professor offered a piece of advice that has remained with me th...