by Clarissa | Jul 9, 2018 | dutch life, family, libraries
Dutch public libraries have an annual offer, where for the months of July and August they provide a pre-defined list of ebooks freely available for all library members. These books are all in Dutch, but they cover a variety of age groups (from 4yo to adult) and a...
by Clarissa | Jul 5, 2018 | family, personal
All four of us have our own art journal. It’s a place to do stuff that gets kept. (I must admit that pretty much all other children’s art gets binned…eventually. Some of it gets displayed first.) It’s a place to try out different techniques and...
by Clarissa | Jul 2, 2018 | personal, writing |
So at the beginning of the year I set myself some goals, and now we are halfway through the year it’s a good time to look back and see how I’m doing on those. My goals for 2018 were: focus on writing improve daily routines look after me talk to friends...
by Clarissa | Jun 28, 2018 | dutch life, family, food, personal |
What’s the first thing you do when you have a new house? Go round the garden and identify what new plants you have, of course! (Well, actually first we picked the ripe fruits and have even made our first batch of homemade jam and relish from it.) We are lucky to...
by Clarissa | Jun 25, 2018 | personal, writing
I have just published a Facebook Page for me as an author. I have been playing around with doing this for a while, and today actually pressed publish on it. This is the next step for me taking myself an an author seriously and trying to build up an audience before a...