Letters on paper / I shall write you every day / Beloveds of mine
Dear reader, When was the last time you hand-wrote a letter? It may be decades ago when you jotted a letter to your penpal, or back in university when you wrote a letter to your…
Musings (Blog)
museummuis
We Vikings
Tomorrow, this “museum mouse” shall be in Leeuwarden, once again, to visit the Frisian Museum! Therefore, it seemed about time to publish an English translation of my review of their last exhibition, that was published…
autism
Happy with the lockdown – the last taboo?
In April 2020, when the Netherlands just entered into a “smart” lockdown, I wrote the following blog for the Art of Autism website. It offers an autistic perspective on staying at home, and now that…
fanfic Gummi Bears translations
Путешествие Малыша Гамми в поисках золотых часов
Aaaaaaaand: another piece of “parent fiction” featuring Disney’s Gummi Bears. ^_^ This one was originally written in Russian, by an author who calls herself xoalexandraox. In the story, the youngest Gummi Bear wants to be…
poetry
Still ‘Diving into the Wreck’
Once in a while, you come across a piece of writing that deeply resonates with what lives inside you, in words you did not have yet. That happened to me, on a sleepless night. I…
fanfic Gummi Bears translations
Η απαγωγή της πριγκίπισσας
I got a new piece of “parent fiction” featuring the Gummi Bears! It is written by someone under the pseudonym of “Klarissimus” and in modern Greek. As I only learnt ancient/Koine Greek, it was difficult…
books Hasse Simonsdochter
Hasse Simonsdochter I
A new category for this blog, to practice my English and to introduce you to one of my favourite books: Hasse Simonsdochter (1983), by Thea Beckman. In this romanticised version of the story about Jan…