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 …
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; …
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 …
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; …
Some people look at me with disbelief when I tell them how I much love the season of Autumn. Where others might feel sorry to see the leaves starting to fall and the summer season leave; I love to feel the wind clear the dusty dryness and see the rain nourish nature and clean the …
As especially the inhabitants of The Hague may have noticed today, the third Tuesday of September, is Prinsjesdag in The Netherlands; the traditional reading of the governments declaration on how the available resources are going to be divided and ruled. The tradition begins with the our local royalty setting off in their glass carriage, in …
Hardly no one needs reminding what day it is today. 9/11 is branded in our memories as the day the world changed. You would think, after the thousands of years and generations humanity spent evolving; we would have learned to live a little bit more at peace with each other ; but instead division and …
