A person laughing with their eyes closed, Dutch landscape in the background

  • Afropean person smiling brightly at the camera while at the beach, happy dogs in the background

    Puppies’ first time at the beach. I’m not a complainer.

  • Sitting in the back of a hip-looking restaurant; light walls, colourful wall art

    Family dinner at Buffet, where I am forever tempted and equally unwilling to try their oeuf mayonnaise

  • A quiet view of a lake in Het Twiske

    I like to think the Netherlands is a beautiful country because it is flat, not in spite of it.

  • An Amsterdam canal basks in the bright pink morning sky

    Leave me alone to the books and the radio snow

  • It takes up little space, the number, now. Still, I like to keep it on my phone’s lock screen. 2700 days of sobriety, of making a very good decision over and over again. It’s a good thing it takes up little space. I think it can because I see it every day.

  • Something about white people cancelling The Smiths because of racism without understanding the effectiveness of teaching people to sit with the discomfort of having their offensiveness pointed out to them is really ticking me off on this fine Saturday morning.

  • Truly baffled, upon waking, to learn how wrong I am when I say to myself: “ah, American elections must be coming up again soon. How long has he been in office now?”