Here is a thought What if subconsciously our Fuik-dag tradition, our sunrise swims after those all-night parties on the first of January, the freezing Nieuwjaarsduik in Holland; what if all…
Santa will pick up the box as soon as possible. In times of crisis the jolly old man can use all the help he can get.
If you didn’t notice from my last post, I’ve moved back to Amsterdam. Back to the room I lived in when I was a student. Back to a city I…
It’s that time of year again. Soft cotton covers buildings and and lies densely at their feet, clouding up the street, children count days till gifts, be them Hanukkah, Sinterklaas…
We seem to be talking about numbers a lot lately. There is the world economy with its trillions of debt. Tucked away under that prickly international/financial blanket individual countries are…
Have you ever noticed how the world moves in circles? No, I didn’t just finish reading up on the heliocentric model of Galileo, Copernicus and Kepler, so keep your ‘duh’s’…
For Euro’s, several strange and exotic foreign currencies, gold and any other precious scrap metal waste. That’s right. It’s gone. I sold it yesterday, when I signed my second contract…
“Don’t tense up. Relax your shoulders, relax all your muscles. It’s the best way to stay warm. Do you know how much energy you lose tensing up your body? It’s…
During a wonderful picnic lunch in Versailles with a half French half English couple, the conversation inevitably turned to linguistic misunderstandings between the two subsequently spoken languages. Why do the…
New York. 3rd Avenue. May 2009. An unoriginal observation on perspective Sometimes things don’t work out. You know what I mean, don’t you? You plan for A but get B.…
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