The Beginning

As a person who has always thought about many things, constantly questioning and annoying everyone with extensive discussions about everything under the sun, I am now starting this blog. I was not very good in German in school. It was hard for me to write a long essay about trivial topics or stories. Because of that it was even more surprising that years later writing had become so important and helpful to me.

Ever since I can remember I've loved long and interesting conversations that, as a child, were usually conducted with elders or adults. In recent years, however, there's been less time for this in part due to building up the dance school.  To compensate, I started writing emails about my thoughts way into the night ...not realizing that these emails were rather a new beginning for me and probably more of a help to me than to those to whom they were addressed. Frankly, I now suspect after a distance of a few years that many of those emails continue to remain incomprehensible to the recipients. ;-)

So then I arrived at the next phase of my writing ... Ideas that were formed among other things by the dance school and the meeting of many different people and opinions were distributed through our dance school newsletter. From the ample feedback and moving emails I've received it, this blog was born.

The thoughts and stories that are posted here have no claim to accuracy or completeness. Rather they should serve to stimulate an exchange of views and to further debate.

As a dancer, dance teacher, entrepreneur, wife and friend, the title of this blog, "A Sense of Tact," seemed to me to capture the complexities of life through the special aspects of  "tact"  = tolerance, recognition, communication and loyalty. At this point I would like to especially thank Renate Eichberger for giving us the idea of the name, and Karen Engel for the wonderful English translation.

Dado and I are a team that has grown by complementing differences and similarities in certain characteristics to what it is now. I am eternally grateful that he accompanies me as a man, husband and partner. It therefore has to be mentioned at this point hat nothing in my life would be like it is without him.... even the thoughts in this blog.

Thus, this is not only my blog, but his. ... and he will certainly be frequently involved himself.

I'm looking forward very much to a lively exchange of ideas and am very curious about what path this next phase of writing will take us.