As a child I loved sleepovers at my grandparents. Remembering them now brings up this flow of sights, smells and sounds that I will cherish for the rest of my life. Although they surely weren’t all the same, they all followed a similar routine. Sleepovers in the summer meant ice cream! My grandfather loved ice […]
Call Me by Your Name.
I have been wanting to present you a new book for some time now, but I haven’t been able to find one worthy of a blog post. Mallory sent me ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ by George Saunders which I thought would be a winner as it won the Man Booker Prize. But it just made […]
Paperwork times Countries.
It is hard to imagine now, but on Monday, March, 9 of this year all four of us were standing in a very crowded place in Frankfurt: the American Embassy. Why? Because we were still planning our trip to Seattle and Willem needed a new American passport. According to the American-German family in front of […]
Social Isolation Happiness
Two weeks ago, I planned to write today about something we all know and “love”: paperwork. But we live in a different world now. Things have been co-ra-zy. So, you will have to wait for two more weeks. Last week, Frederik was still in Switzerland on an extended group meeting for work in a ski […]
Autobiography in Five Chapters. By Portia Nelson.
I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk I fall in. I am lost… I am hopeless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. II I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see […]