Audio recording ‘Who else could have done it?” as broadcasted in the radioprogram for international ‘Dutchbuzz’ on Den Haag FM, every Tuesday from 09.00-10.00 pm. I am blessed to be the proud mother of 4 children, 2 girls, 2 boys, now all in their twenties; traveling the world and doing their own thing. Throughout …
Click the link above to listen to the recording of this blog. I love how writers at times hit the heart of their subject matter by coining a new expression. Joseph Heller did this with his 1962 debut novel ‘Catch 22′. I never read the novel but have always loved to apply the meaning …
What do we teach our children when we offer them plastic hair-dye toy horses in advance of a ceremony commemorating the people that perished in the second war? I was thinking that when I was watching television on the evening of May fourth just before 8 pm, waiting for the annual broadcast of the ceremony …
So…what have y’all been up to over the Easter weekend? Did you go for a bike ride? Did you have an Easter brunch? Or did you go out to the beach to sit in the sun? Common things you’d say; things we like to do. Things we take for granted at times. Things we may …
If someone would have told me 7 years ago, I would write a blog in April 2019 because of the release of season 8 of Game of Thrones, I would have ‘lol-ed’, and said ‘NO WAY I am ever going to watch that horrid series where children get pushed off towers; women raped at weddings; …
We live in times of transformation. I hear many people around me talk about things going on in the world; things changing; things they are appalled about; things that worry them; the state of our earth; affairs going on in politics, concerns about climate change and plastic in the seas Professional astrologists point out that …
The Science of Psychology has a habit of dividing people into personality types based on fixed data. It seems to me however people are way too unique and complex to be comprised into the cubicle of set traits. I also feel its a rather ‘brainy’ way of evaluating people; judging them more on stereotype characteristics …
‘The Tower” or ‘Detachment’ as I prefer to call it in the Nan War Who Am I cards, is a card people prefer to keep in the pack during a reading. For many it signifies they have to detach (which is true btw) from what they are used to; what they are taught and therefore think they …
This blog is for all beautiful, mindful, thoughtful, wise women out there who are ready to embrace their grand-mother identity and for all the men who recognize, honor and respect this extraordinary trait in women. It is also a blog to convince myself , about a truth I recently discovered. Here’s what happened: I turned …
It must have come to most of our attention that the world is in a pretty hectic state. Ice caps melting; storms ravaging the continents; floods threatening the homes of many while in other parts draughts are making water a dangerously scarce commodity. On other locations, volcanic eruptions are driving people out of their homesteads. …
