Personal
For a nethead and digerati like myself, 2014 was a year of ironies. For one, if I was to name the go-to-tool that played the most pivotal role for me at work last year, it has to be post-it-notes - and then there was that whole mindfulness business. I guess
Journalism
"You know, we really prefer to talk to people who’ve come full circle," a magazine journalist who interviewed me last summer told me (or something to the tune of this). The story still made the cover of the magazine in question in September, but at the time
Personal
Add meetings, presentations and report-writing that title pretty much sums up my week.It's been a week with a slightly dizzying pace, very intense, but, although I started it in the doctor's office, I got a lot of important things done, learnt some valuable new things
Personal
Here's wishing you all a wonderful 2013! I think I made this card for new year 2009, as the world economy was in a complete mess after the 2008 bank crisis etc, then I didn't post it as I thought it would come across as a
Journalism
Here's a few links I've been thinking about recently (and had open in my web browser for ages). Obviously I need to find a new bookmarking site to my liking, after Delicious got all pearshaped I've been unable to make up my mind about
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I must admit celebrating 17 May has at times felt as too much hassle due to all the preparations involved. But against the backdrop of the devastating twin terror attacks on 22 July last year, and the current, painful trial against mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, I found this week&
Journalism
The bad thing about changing deeply set habits and patterns of reactions? It may make you realise how unsustainable your lifestyle has been. In 2011, I chose one of the hardest new year resolutions ever – to change deeply set patterns of behaviour and reactions – and for the most part I
Blogging
What I remember most vividly about 9/11 is a woman alternately sobbing, crying and screaming over the phone line as the drama unfolded on the TV-screen. I was at home in East Finchley, London, working on my masters project, when my ex-partner called me and asked me to turn
Personal
Luckily, Irene turned out to be an empty threat in the end. Mind you, I’m talking about the woman. Not the hurricane turned tropical storm which caused very real damage along its path. Even though its impact could have been much worse I agree that «nothing is ‘not that
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“You know, it was a near miss for you just as it was for me as I narrowly avoided being on the Piccadilly line train when one of the bombs exploded on 7/7” The sentiment belongs to my Dutch ex-partner. We lived together in London on and off for
Books
I was ill this last weekend and spent it in the company of ghosts. Fictional ones, that is. As it happened, I’d been fighting flu for quite some time. But I had just finished some big, important assignments, could finally allow myself to be ill and it was raining
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"You're the girl whose dog saved your life, aren't you?" It's sometimes strange how people from different parts of your life remember you, the things they associate with you. Last night, attending a reunion for junior high school, one of the girls