Fracas Noir || Susanne Waldau - te Brake I swear to tell the truth as I know it…

Who said the days between Christmas and New Year where lazy? Earlier this morning I got a call from my husband just checking in on how I was doing. “Fine”, I replied and with that we continued to chit chat about what the day had in store for both of us. My husband had a [...]

The window is open casting spells of sun on the amber coloured parquet. A gentle breeze is landing on my skin. I can hear the churchbells in the distance, echoing through the bare, empty streets. I feel so good. All around me are signs of love. The cuddly toys strewn over the floor, a discarded [...]

so december 26th is THE day. My first iPhone posting
* Thanks honey!

And so Christmas eve has come to an end. My day started early with laundry and cleaning to prepare for the big day. As an expat in a foreign country, traditions become even more important, and most important of all is Christmas Eve. It’s the evening when a big family meal is prepared followed by [...]

I’ve been really bad at blogging these last few days. A few reasons: A stressful week and weekend left me exhausted. On Saturday Caroline was here Christmas cleaning the house whilst I was getting ready for Christmas, shopping for presents, making the order at the local butcher for Christmas delicacies and getting the tree. Sunday, [...]

Sleep is a blessing. Because at 12.30 after dropping off the last emails I fell into a deep, deep sleep. Entirely different from the night before…
Thursday 9 am in taxi on my way to Hoorn
I never got to to sleep. As Jacques de Molay was burning on a stake on the Ile de la Cite,  [...]

01.51. Sleepless night. My heart is beating fast, like it’s about to break loose, escape from my ribcage. I take a deep breath. Then another one. Focus, focus. There is no tomorrow. My alarm is set to 7 am. First gym, then shower, then taxi to Hoorn for an appointment at the hospital.
Tomorrow’s schedule is [...]

I’m going to utilize my blog to spread a message of the business kind: As you may or may not apart from my professional ties into the gaming industry I am also one of the founders of an online salsa portal – www.onlinesalsa.com. We launched in May this year and are currently actively [...]

Blogging has been sparse this weekend. I was just too tired, so I took time to sleep, relax and do a bit of shopping in town. Not much I must admit as I’ve done all my Christmas shopping during a late night shopping spree a couple of weeks ago. Friday Stephen came over to give [...]

We live parallel lives. He goes to work, I go to mine. The occasional mail comes by…it’s either about business or domestic. At 7.30 pm, or 8 or 8.15 our lives stream together for a brief moment over dinner. He’s on the phone, I lay the table. I wait for him to end his conversation. [...]