Mind the gap
I returned home for the Christmas break in late December. Welcomed by the red buses and red noses of local [...]
“To be loved is to be changed”
I think about this quote, "to be loved is to be changed," often when reflecting on how the people or [...]
Dare to fly
Two artists meet one misty summer night in Rotterdam central, brought together by the green strobes and bumping bass of [...]
Warrior culture
Michael Paris, a historian at the University of Lancashire, whom I met during my high school history class, has been [...]
Feeling very gezellig
Gezellig is a Dutch word for which there is no real English equivalent. The Dutch use it to mean comfort, [...]
2012, 2025, and everything in between
I remember being about seven years old staying up until midnight with my family. The thirty-first of December 2012. Champagne [...]
The double life
I’ve started to think more deeply about what identity comprises. For me, it is made up of many things: one’s [...]
An original thought?
It’s that time of year again. Where I sit in new classes with new people, and I’m supposed to be [...]
The road trip
You learn a lot about someone when you spend two weeks living, cooking and sleeping, in a 2003 Volkswagen T4 [...]
Lost mother tongue
Cultural amnesia, I don’t think there’s a tick box for that on medical forms. Conversations come up in which I [...]