Knock knock, who's there? Unexpected visitors!

Do you know the movie Serendipity? It's all about the idea that if something is meant to be, it will happen. This week I encountered my own kind of serendipity. Here's what happened. Serendipity Two weeks ago I was walking around this thrift store when I spotted this really ugly garden gnome. Some might even...

My neighbour gave me a beautiful bouquet for Easter. She made it herself. Selfmade bouquet after a week I didn't think it could any prettier, but then it did.  The twigs she picked from her garden have started to blossom! I really love this selfmade bouquet because of its simplicity. That's what makes it so...

It sounds like the title of a children's book: The wind chimes that didn't chime. However, in this case it's less poetic, and more of a case of buying something that's not what you thought. I bought these lovely looking bells which I thought were wind chimes. But they're definitely not wind chimes... Not wind...

Dutch prime minister Rutte is known for being down to earth and kind of laid back.  He still drives an old Saab, and lives in an ordinary upstairs apartment. Once a week he teaches social studies at a local high school. The way he addresses the corona crisis is down to earth too. And sometimes...

There's just so much you can do on the internet nowadays. Like dumping someone. 'Kirk dumped Stephanie today by email,' my thirteen old daughter told me. And she added: 'That's the third time she got dumped by email already.' I smelled a great parenting opportunity to teach them some high morals, so I said: 'That's...

We were having dinner, and I was bored senseless waiting for my seventeen year old daughter to finally clear her plate. But what's a parent to do?! You're supposed to teach your kids to stay at the table until everybody's finished, so I was held hostage by my own parenting etiquette. This meant I was...