In a bookstore in Amsterdam, this book caught my eye. The title fascinated me: “Self-Compassion? Isn’t that just a fancy word for self-pity?” But when I read the back cover, I knew I was getting it. Not that I knew who the author was, but I do remember “The Horse Boy”. This is a book, […]
Germany’s Service Desert. Case 3.
We have been living in Germany for three years now, and I guess I/we have slowly been socialized back into European society with its lower standards on customer service. But I am still posting this event from May 2017. It was this experience of Germany’s service desert that triggered this blog. Case 3: The Galeria […]
Amy Camber. A Comic Artist.
I met Amy through Sandhurst Cooperative Preschool, Janne’s awesome preschool in Seattle. Her oldest child, two days younger than Janne and obsessed with dragons at the time, was in Janne’s group. Her youngest is about a month older than Willem, although I did not really realize that at the time. Blame the sleep deprivation. Amy […]
The Instagram Interpretation of the Allegory of the Cave
I have been on Instagram for a little less than a year now and at the time, it was a new world opening up to me. At first, I experienced Instagram as opening a little treasure chest with things of beauty inside of it, every picture a piece of eye candy ready to eat at […]
It melts. By Lize Spit
Did you know that Belgium has three official languages? Dutch (or Flemish) in the North, French in the South and a little piece in the East speaking German. Brussels is its capital and we are known for chocolate, beer and waffles. But now you can also read something Belgian! You can even choose the language! […]