Spring – searching for shadows
28/04/2013 by 1 Comment
Baby green, the darling buds, snowdrops and daffodils, the tweeting (of real birds mind you), that smell in the air unlike any other and that something in the air. The clichés are never more numerous nor more beautiful than in spring. Spring fever hits a large portion of the population, caused by a very healthy […]
Spring cleaning & speedy suppers
25/04/2013 by Leave a Comment
We have one of those corner cupboards that opens out with two semicircle shelves, and the curves don’t make it easy to store things in there. I have my cake tins and metal cooling racks on the top and pyrex dishes on the bottom. Needless to say the cooling racks fall down quite a bit […]
Pure bliss
25/04/2013 by Leave a Comment
Getting off at “Semaphore Station”
21/04/2013 by 1 Comment
There’s something about old abandoned train stations. Nostalgia and a whiff of former glory and buzz. A landmark, a meeting point, and the starting point of a journey. Some get a new life, like the tiny Oetrange station in Luxembourg. Walking up the creaky stairs, there’s a smell of creativity. And if you can’t smell […]
The Price of Fashion: How Much Is Too Much?
21/04/2013 by 1 Comment
Like other fashion insiders, I never pay full retail price. Thankfully it’s a perk of my job, but it is also on principle: most clothing today is not worth its price. 30 years ago, a Sony Walkman was $100 and today an iPhone is about $300 – completely justifiable, in my opinion. But how did […]
Spoon licking, slow eating smiley face
19/04/2013 by Leave a Comment
Some of us truly think that dessert is the best part of a meal. We might really enjoy the steak or the oven baked salmon, and wow – that veggie side dish with garlic was delicious! But dessert…that is where we kind of lean back and eat in silence. Spoon by spoon, slowly, almost licking […]
The Great Race of Mercy
18/04/2013 by Leave a Comment
In the winter of 1925, a diphtheria epidemic threatened the Arctic village of Nome, Alaska, a crisis too terrible to imagine. An outbreak could kill most of the region’s population of 10.000. They needed antitoxin and the dog sled race from Nenana to Nome that brought medicine became the founding of Iditarod. In January 1925, […]
Awareness: An important sexually transmitted infection
15/04/2013 by 4 Comments
So here is the clue (or CLEW): It is an important sexually transmitted infection with three initials, the first being H and the last V… I would guess that most of you would have said HIV, but then you would be wrong. I’m thinking of HPV, which stands for Human Papilloma Virus. HPV is the […]
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