I tend to lose things more often than I like to admit. And when you have this tendency, you can either let yourself go into a full-blown panic or, as I have learned to do, retreat into an almost eerie calm. It’s happened enough times that I’ve learned to whip through a hyper-accelerated version of …
If you’re someone who needs a reason to go to Paris, then you’re missing the point: Paris is the reason to go to Paris. And if you live in The Hague but haven’t been to Paris at least once yet this year, then you’re missing out. To be such a short ride away from one …
If, like me, you are living in Europe for the first time in your life, you have certain daydream images of how you will spend your afternoons. This was particularly true when I first arrived in the dead of winter with no schedule to adhere to but Albert Heijn’s. I had generous stretches of time …
It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, Of all things physical and metaphysical, Of all things human and all things super-human, Of all true manifestations of the head, Of the heart, of the soul, That the life is recognizable in its expression, That form ever follows function. This is the law. – …