Two kids two weeks off from of school, no nanny or grandmother in sight, what does one do? After some agenda pushing an pulling, we decided to all spend a holiday together at home. Something I can’t imagine we would ever even thought of back in Amsterdam. We had long mornings, friends over from Holland…

It has been over 6 weeks since my Iphone hit the street in an attempt to swing my purse over my head while running to the car not to be late at the creche. It hit the soil and broke in a million pieces, showing all the mechanics inside. Dead. At about the same time the…

It was Virginia Woolf who said that women need a room of their own. She also said that women need to make money of their own. Well, at the moment I don’t have a room and I’m hitting my savings as hard as I can. The office in the house is mostly confiscated by my…

Spring has come. Not only are we surrounded by the most diverse colours of green, every day new flowers are out, but after four months into our new homes and lives, we can say that we are changing. Spring has also come into our lives. We feel different. We feel new. To speak for myself: after…

The last couple of months I struggled with ‘not going to work’. One of the reasons we moved here was to experience more of a family life. Being all together, in stead of living four separate lives under one roof. And it worked, we are all thriving mostly functioning as one organism. But it also…

It has been 10 weeks since our over-packed car drove up our new street in France. After two weeks of holiday feeling, normal life has also started here with school and work and it feels like we’ve never been somewhere else.  We eat our porridge in the morning together at the kitchen table, before the kids are…

Back in Amsterdam I can’t remember quite knowing when the moon would be full or new. There were just too many buildings to see the moon at night, or the stars for that matter. I can’t remember looking up at the sky at night, only on new years eve. Because of the light pollution there…

I am about to make a decision that I thought I’d taken a while ago, but sometimes you seem to have to take a decision over and over again before you are ready to act on it. Like going on a diet.  This is a decision I know I will be mocked about by my peers…

The last five years all of my work has been involving modern life. I made a film and gave dozens of lectures about yuppie disease, suffered from it myself over the last fifteen years, am writing a book about that struggle and last year I made a film about young modern women trying to make it all…

I kept telling people that I wasn’t really leaving, that I would just be moving to another house a little further away.  No need to say goodbye, we would probably just see each other more often. Truth is I tried to comfort myself. The thought of leaving everybody that I liked and loved so much…

Opinie & Debat Hou op met vergelijken van mannen en vrouwen Laat de m/v discussie minder over mannen en meer over vrouwelijk potentieel gaan. Want vrouwen moeten hun eigen norm bepalen – en niet steeds doen wat anderen vinden dat zij moeten doen, meent Sarah Domogala. Door Sarah Domogala. ZATERDAG 9 NOVEMBER 2013 Vrouwen wringen zich in…