Video – Yarn Shop (Breikunst) Interview
This spring I spent a lovely afternoon interviewing the owner of Breikunst, a yarn shop in Arnhem. I remember from my theater training, “Show, don’t tell!”, so I always endeavor to show you interesting...
Category: Living Abroad
Video – Plus 1, Minus 2
YouTube channels Not Just Bikes and Shifter recently played a game of Plus 1 Minus 2, comparing bicycle trips from “downtown” to a hardware store in their respective towns of Calgary, Canada and Amsterdam,...
Casual Chats
Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well. It’s strange how I feel like I’m both moving in slow motion while also watching time go by quickly. The dichotomy of doing little and accomplishing...
… 2021
As we closed out 2020, my thoughts drifted into the coming year. 2020 was a strange year and I’m keen to leave a lot of it behind. It wasn’t all bad though, and I’m...
2020 …
It has been quite the unusual year. I feel like I should recap a little bit for anyone looking back from the future and thinking, ah now, it wasn’t that bad was it? The...
Haircut “met pony”
I got my hair cut a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago (time is kind of nebulous these days). I like having bangs from time to time (also known as fringe to our...
Stay Safe, Be Kind
It’s Wednesday at 7 pm and the church bells are ringing. I’m used to them ringing for either something to celebrate (royal wedding) or something serious has happened (royal death), so I was a...
Consistently Inconsistent
One thing that I’ve figured out about myself is that I am inconsistent with my habits. I can do something for a while, but eventually the habit breaks. With this website, I want to...
August 2019
It’s a month of near constant activity around here. Pretty much all of July and the first 11 days of August were dedicated to Myths and Legends Con prep. The convention went well, thank...
Enjoying the Local Currency
We track our spending with accounting software, so doing every purchase via our bank card makes tracking a lot easier. When we first got to the Netherlands, though, we didn’t have a Dutch bank...