by Clarissa | Oct 29, 2018 | personal |
My parents sold their house last week. The house they’d lived in since I was small. My first memories are when we moved into that house aged three – walking with my dad through the dining room, taking big steps over the rolls of carpet on the floor. The...
by Clarissa | Sep 24, 2018 | personal, writing |
I am struggling at the moment – I know what I want to be (an author), but though I have a plan for how to get there I’m not there yet. I feel like I’m in an extended period of metamorphosis. It’s nearly five years since I last worked in an...
by Clarissa | Sep 18, 2018 | dutch life, family, personal |
I missed writing yesterday because I knew that today was the day the Dutch government announced their budget. Normally I don’t bother with blogging about this, but this is not an ordinary year. This time the implications for us were very high. Now, the Dutch...
by Clarissa | Sep 10, 2018 | family, personal, writing |
I find the beginning of the school year is always a good time to re-evaluate what I’m doing. To assess where I am in my plans and to realign them with where I am and where I want to go to. This year, as part of that I have been fleshing out my reasons for...
by Clarissa | Sep 3, 2018 | family, personal |
My daughter has a favourite dress. It’s purple and frilly and great for wearing to parties, weddings etc. But she wants to wear it all the time. She’ll go to the playarea in it, or poke around the garden, and of course wear it to school. In fact...
by Clarissa | Aug 27, 2018 | personal, writing |
I’m a private person: I don’t shout about things that happen to me and I don’t ask for help easily. Which makes it all the more difficult for me to promote myself. I prefer standing in the background, rather than being the centre of things. And yet I...
