There are other things in life — I wish we weren’t raised to obsess over weddings. The big white day. The goal of all girls everywhere. Drilled into us since we tiny girls, barely able to walk. Marriage is the ultimate goal of any girl’s life! We were raised to obsess over getting married. The finish line…

Life lessons I have picked up along the way — Drinking a lot will make you feel like shit. Nothing beats waking up early going for a run/cycle in the early morning, while drinking too much is guaranteed to make you feel horrible the next day. Everyone is insecure. Everyone has fears. Everyone feels lonely and sad a lot or…

Flakey friends are hard — Flakey friends. We all have them. They do one or more of the following: they don’t respond to any messages on WhatsApp or Facebook or Instagram; or they take forever to respond, a minimum of 1 week; they say they will call but don’t; they say they will be there…

Is it you or them? — Why do some friendships endure and others simply fade away or blow up in your face? Even with all these wonderfully easy methods of communication we now have, maintaining an adult friendship isn’t magically easier. Are my friends just too busy or do they no longer care about the friendship? …

Loving the Dutch Life — My partner and I recently moved to the Netherlands. We love it. We somehow managed to immigrate during the covid pandemic. After multiple tests and canceled flights we safely landed in the Netherlands at the beginning of February. It's not the same of course. There are a lot of things…

How I decided to drink again — I gave up drinking almost two years ago. Well, excessive drinking. I wasn’t an alcoholic but like most twenty-year-olds, I drank to have fun. I got drunk almost every month. It was a part of my life. Too much a part of my life. So I stopped drinking for a…

Ask yourself this first — Work is important. We need to work but how desperately do we need the job. While job searching recently I found myself looking for jobs that I thought would be great but for the wrong reasons. A persistent thought I had when I found a ‘suitable’ job opening, was: Imagine…