A whole life phase of seven years we have been together today. What started as a head over heels foolish love encounter, develloped quickly into a firm determination to stay together. And we did. We moved in, got married, started to take our work more serious, had two fantastic, crazy, beautiful babies, moved to France….

After a family skinny dip in the river, the watermill was mounted. A perfect summer sunday and a prelude to how warm it will become this summer.  

Summer has really kicked in and the village is turning into one of those hot, sleepy little towns I remember from holidays. Life is slowing down, people sitting in the shade, talking in the street. And soon the Petanque club will start again to play at night under the trees. It’s called ‘Les Boules Joyeaux”…

One of the reasons I wanted to live so far from society is that I need to become my ‘own’. I want to learn who I am without my identity, my work, my friends and family. Without all the ideas I have about myself, without the ‘seeing myself to other people’s eyes’. And I really do…

Read this spot on article by Hadley Freeman in response to Jill Abramson’s sacking by The New York Times. My favourite newspaper – up till now. And let’s not forget Natalie Nougayrède being fired as editor-in-chief of Le Monde on the same day. Both were the first females in their position and both are accused of…

Sometimes you really feel that history is writing itself under our eyes. The first tanker with north pole oil is entering Rotterdam harbor. The weather report is telling Paris’ residents to stay in due to heavily polluted air. New Zealand’s court denied access to the first climate change fugitives from Kiribati, an island that will soon be swallowed…

The last couple of days I’ve been tested. Every time I think I’ve battled my fears, they just pop up in a different form. I took an airplane alone with my two young children, thinking I would be home in time for dinner. The plane got in unpredicted bad weather, circling around the airport in turbulence for an…

Tonight T’s new documentary will be shown on national television. A beautiful film about boys that are about to become men. Watch the trailer here. The full movie here in dutch. And while you’re at it, my dear friend Menna Laura Meijer made this heart-whole documentary about senior sex. Watch it here in dutch as well….

      Just stay on the mountain long enough, and you’ll end up as much a stereotype as anywhere else…  

When I traded Amsterdam for nature I was tired of a lot of things, and one of them was of having an opinion about almost everything. Somehow I got to the point that I believed that it is ok to be critical about everything I encounter in life. From the colour of someones shoes to their last work to…