A Message from my Younger Self

Dorit Brauer Art

A Visit with my Younger Self Reading diaries from my solo-backpacking trip to Brazil 1987/88.  My approach to life has not changed. Check out what I said then and now: […]

Read Dorit’s Award-Winning Autobiography

Author bestseller

Be In Love With Your Life! Embark onto the most exciting and rewarding journey: The adventure of life! I invite you to read my award-winning autobiography Girls Don’t Ride Motorbikes […]

Living Fearlessly

Dorit Brauer

One of the most frequent questions people asked me after my 2006 solo cross country motorcycle adventure is if I wasn’t afraid to travel across the US all by myself. […]

Celebrating 20 Years in the US

Dorit Brauer Art

The month of May is a special month of celebration for me. This year I celebrate the 20-year anniversary of living in the amazing United States of America. I am […]

2012 Book Launch Party

Dorit Brauer's Book Party Pittsburgh 2012

May 5. 2012 I had the great pleasure to host the Book Launch Party celebrating the publication of my auto-biography Girls Don’t Ride Motorbikes – A Spiritual Adventure Into Life’s Labyrinth […]

Circling into Happiness

Immigrant Entrepreneur Award

I am very honored and grateful to be the 2016 recipient of the Immigrant Entrepreneur Award from Global Pittsburgh in recognition of my achievements and enriching the Pittsburgh region with […]

A Flexible Person Cannot Be Bent Out Of Shape

Flexible Person

Please enjoy this book excerpt from Chapter 29, as I share my reflections following an encounter with German tourists in Sedona, Arizona. The purpose of Girls Don’t Ride Motorbikes – […]

The Weight of History

Sculpture Garden

Notes from a visit to Germany: Friday evening, May 20, 2011, I visited my friend Toelli’s art studio, only a few kilometers from our farm. We stood outside in his […]

The Lost Generation

Labyrinth Rees Germany

Notes from a 2010 visit to Germany: My mom sat on a log of driftwood, next to the River Rhine, petting our dog Max, a black and white mutt. We […]

My Father’s Scar

Karl Brauer on horseback in Rees Germany

In Chapter 28 of Girls Don’t Ride Motorbikes I describe a scene with my dad, in which he shares memories of his youth and the rescue of his older cousin’s […]

In the Footsteps of my Ancestors

Ancestors

Please enjoy the notes from a conversation with my mom, while on a trip to Zandvoort, Holland, in 2011: “You know, Dorit,” my mom said, “you are just following into […]

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