Audio recording ‘Who else could have done it?” as broadcasted in the radioprogram for internationals ‘Dutchbuzz’ of May 28 9 pm on Den Haag FM. Suddenly I see… a 3 minute listen There are those moments in life where suddenly, while I’m right in the middle of doing something daily-life-like; in between the hustle …
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 …
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; …
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 …
About 15 to 20 years years ago I had the immense pleasure of doing a yoga teacher training at the Kripalu Institute of Yoga and Health in Massachusetts. It was in the days back when the school was already famous and well known yet still relatively small. I treasure the good memories I have. Silence …
Blog picture: cliparts.nl I love this time of year. Short days, long evenings; time to stay indoors and read a book. And with new year’s eve approaching also time to reflect on what has been and think out of the box on where to go next year. It seems the new year always brings new …
Who Do You Think You Are? This is more than the question on where you come from. You might think who you are is determined by the name you were given at birth, the family you grew up in or the cultural values that you were taught; yet a whole lot of who you are, …
Last Sunday I was invited to a concert in the village of my childhood days to commemorate all villagers who passed away between the dates of November 2017 and November 2018. The reason I was invited was because of my mother. She passed away on December 7, 2017. The local undertaker from the relatively small …
