“Half my brain is already in heaven”
My mother has dementia — a devastating disease that gradually decreases a person’s ability to think and remember. Here’s how she deals with it.
My love affair with coffee
I have a lifelong love affair with coffee. That wonderful drink and I have been together for more than 58 years now. Well, no doubt it hasn’t been quite that long, although a family joke has it that I drank coffee before I had my first taste of breast milk. I do believe the latter won out for a while. But I have been drinking coffee from a very early age, and the habit has stayed with me for all this time.
Westerkerk
Standing on top of the A’DAM tower — enjoying the A’DAM Lookout observation deck — I noticed, not for the first time, how tall the Westerkerk church building is in relation to the rest of the houses in downtown Amsterdam.
Student Housing, Amsterdam
Due to a severe housing shortage in Amsterdam, students (and others) tend to have great difficulty finding an affordable place to live.
The city has come to the rescue by providing temporary students housing in former sea shipping containers.
The city has come to the rescue by providing temporary students housing in former sea shipping containers.
Singel 68-54, Amsterdam
Singel canal used to serve as a moat around medieval Amsterdam.
Rotterdam in Amsterdam
The recently opened bike tunnel underneath Amsterdam Central Station includes a depiction of the harbor of Rotterdam, ignoring the traditional rivalry between the two cities.