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

I’m down with a flu…again! Coming to think of it, I must have been ill at least a handful in as many months. Sebastian is the culprit here, coming home with all kinds of deceases from the creche. I started feeling the usual symptoms such as a sore throat and ear pain mid week, but [...]

In the car on my way to work. My husband is driving whilst I go through my emails having come in through the night. I like to keep a clean inbox, at the most 10 emails, and preferably no more than 5. My response time is swift, and the last thing I do before I [...]

I wake up early. Not from the alarm clock but from Sebastian wailing. It’s 6.30 am, 10 minutes before scheduled time, so I hastily wrap myself up in an overused, coffee strained dressing gown and head down to the kitchen to make another bottle. Sebastian eagerly takes it together with some pieces of Lego and [...]

In inspiration of a question I got about scents for men I decided to raid my husband’s stack of fragrances, which often on either my encouragement or initiative has been added to my husbands already existing collection.
A good fragrance pour homme is equally easy as it is difficult to find. The good news is that [...]

The phone is ringing. It’s my husband. I put the phone on silent, but instead it starts to vibrate. A plastic container with nuts becomes a temporary cradle. By the time I position it in the midst of cashew and macadamia nuts the phone has stopped ringing. Instead a missing call message stares back at [...]

Days are hot, nights are humid. Everything comes to a standstill. Trains are late, service is going down an ever slippery slope. And my own commitments are given way for excuses. They rarely hold up.
Last night…
I lay awake in bed, tossing and turning. I read a book about the fortunes of one Grace Hammer. It [...]

Dinner at Popokatepetl. I have fajitas, W goes for a burrito. Time passes quickly and at a certain point, rain and heavy thunder errupts. We move inside to continue our female rendez vous. I’m home at midnight, no salsa but evening was great. Reinout is asleep and but comes downstairs to open the door for [...]

In town it’s crowded. As I walk in my black pencil skirt my thighs are rubbing together from the heat. That forever taking diet is not paying off. Thigh rubbing or not, I decide against a cappuccino and order just a black coffee. A biscuit that accompanies it gets handed over to Sebastian who eagerly [...]

I wake up early from Sebastian crying. I give him a bottle and walk into the toilet to drink some water. The heat is stifling. Outside, the sky is losing the purple hue of dawn and the first rays of the blazing sun is piercing the window. I close my eyes, desperately trying to ward [...]

I love perfumes. They add definition, drama and passion to my character. Like any other woman I have different perfumes for different occassions. What sets me apart from what I dare to say the rest of the population is my obsession for rare, exclusive perfumes. In my book it’s a travesty to buy any D&G, [...]