What a year! 2022 was by far the hardest year of my life that I can remember. I gave birth in 2021 and even that was easier than 2022. But as a famous song lyric has it, “What does not kill us, makes us stronger”, right? The year started strong but also quietly as usual […]
MoreLast Sunday morning, I was unsuspectingly packing my suitcase to go on a work trip to Denver. I even obtained a special return visa to ensure that I will be able to return to the Netherlands. I kissed goodbye to Sofia, N, and Sherlock and walked to the train station. Last Sunday evening, I ended […]
MoreToday is my first day back at work which comes after 3 months of sabbatical. I was initially going to write that it is challenging to really enjoy your sabbatical when you have a young child. But then, I talked to my cousin who is 22 years old and is living at war in Ukraine […]
MoreWhen one door closes, another door opens. Is it not how the saying goes? I don’t know but it does certainly feel like this. At the end of January this year, I said to Nicolas that I want to move to the Netherlands and that would be a cool adventure. I don’t know why I […]
MoreIt has been three weeks since Russia attacked Ukraine. More than 100 children were killed, more than a million fled or were displaced, who knows how many millions of families were torn apart. It has been three weeks since my life went in limbo. I feel like the world is moving around but I am […]
MoreWhere do I start on this? It has been a while since I wanted to write about this but I never got around to doing it. Probably because it is partly scary to admit that you have done something stupid. For about three months now, I have been suffering from the worst insomnia. Falling asleep […]
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