This post was meant for Mid-August, as it is about the first day of school! It did not happen then, because my Grandmother passed away around that time. You read it right, my American readers. School started again -in this region of Germany- 12th of August, after the traditional six weeks summer break! In Germany, […]
Sandra Nys. A Store Owner.
Sandra is a close friend. Her husband was my neighbor, then my friend, and then, we each had significant others moving in, multiplying our friendship times two. To make life easier, we introduced Thursday Dinner Nights: Instead of cooking for two, you cook for four people, every first Thursday, and you don’t have to cook […]
Agnes, my Agnes. A Eulogy for my Grandmother
My Grandmother Agnes died 17th of August this year. She died of heart failure in the house she was born in 95 years ago while warming a crepe she was about to have. I read a shorter version of this eulogy at her funeral last week. Agnes was the daughter of the butcher, she was […]
Cleaning is messy business.
Last Saturday, Frederik and the kids left for a week of visiting family and friends in Belgium. As I already spent some marvellous vacation days in Seattle, I unfortunately could not join them now (but I am doing so next Saturday). They literally had not left yet and I was doing what I had planned […]
Fates and Furies. By Lauren Groff
A thick drizzle from the sky, like a curtain’s sudden sweeping. The seabirds stopped their tuning, the ocean went mute. House-lights over the water dimmed to gray. Two people were coming up the beach. She was fair and sharp in a green bikini, though it was May in Maine and cold. He was tall, vivid; […]