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 …
In the old days a farmer or seafarer would look up at the Sky and predict what type of weather it would be in two days time. These days we look at our phones instead of out of the window to check if we need an umbrella. Navigation systems in cars tell us which way …
Life has a habit of bringing us these day-to-day challenges. Next to the big stuff, we also get the small irritations between partners or petty power struggles at the office; parents, children, businesspartners… Any relationship really has its own bumps in the road and even small pebbles can cause big impact on our functioning together; …
Normally I switch off television or radio commercials, but the other day I accidentally fell into the message of a big Dutch supermarket chain urging people to: Buy more so it will be cheaper. So what they say is: Spend more money so it will cost you less. Which of course is ridiculous. What they …
