3 minute (abridged) recording of the end-of-the-season Dutchbuzz blog of June 25th 2019, ‘The treadmill of tweets” Yeaaah (Kermit style) holiday time is here! I have the honor to speak the famous last words; of the Dutchbuzz season that is, until it resumes in September. For those who are packing their suitcases to go on …
In an interview with the Dutch daily newspaper “Algemeen Dagblad” the minister of agriculture of The Netherlands, Carola Schouten announced her plans on ‘kringlooplandbouw; roughly translated recycle- agriculture. Several millions are to be invested into this project over the coming years. In the article Schouten explains how the last couple of decades were marked by …
Don’t Offer the Good Biscuits; Abridged version of the spoken end-of-the-program-blog of June 11 2019 for Dutchbuzz; the radio broadcast for Internationals on The Hague FM, every Tuesday from 9-10 when in season. a 3 minute listen to. In the world around me I see a lot of angry people. Angry at their governments for …
Audio recording of the abridged version of 3 Tools for Self Care, as broadcasted in the radioprogram for internationals ‘Dutchbuzz’ of June 4th 2019 on Den Haag FM, 9.00 pm 3 tools for self care – a 3 minute listen. How often are you aware of the fact that it is easier to observe …
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 …
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; …
