Take a look at these recent statistics published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on how men and women in different countries spend their time when they’re not working.
You look smashing!
01/03/2014 by Leave a Comment
March 1st is World Compliment Day. That makes me think back to my first time in New York, where people threw compliments at me on the street and I was completely caught off guard. Especially coming from a deeply rooted small town mentality of “who do you think you are?” and “you must not think […]
Women & wine
10/02/2014 by Leave a Comment
Women and wine is a good match, but it still has a lot of potential. LuciliVines – the association for women and wine in Luxembourg – is the perfect matchmaker, bringing women and wine together at many levels. LuciliVines was started almost two years ago, with wine maker Anouk Bastian as passionate president. The association […]
A penny for your thoughts
26/01/2014 by Leave a Comment
Sometimes I wonder if my brain follows the outside temperature, for example when it hits freezing point. Now, in my situation – you know, the expat wife situation – I can allow my brain to come to full stop on days like these. Not at all indicating that expat wife brains stop more easily, I am […]
Women who inspire women
22/01/2014 by Leave a Comment
CLEW asks women worth noticing in Luxembourg to choose a woman in public life who is an inspiration to them – in their work and in their life. Anouk Bastian chooses Ger Maas
Adopting traditions
06/01/2014 by Leave a Comment
Today, 12 days after Christmas, we celebrate Epiphany – or Three Kings Day, or the Twelfth Day – the day baby Jesus was presented to the three wise men. It is a public holiday in many countries. As expats, we have adopted the tradition of the galette des rois – King cake – a French tradition […]
Happy New Year
31/12/2013 by Leave a Comment
While waiting to pay for your groceries, do you ever look at what the person behind you is buying, placing your imagination in between the milk cartons and veggies to get a small glimpse of who that person is and where he or she’s off to later? I just did my last grocery shopping in 2013, getting ready […]
The first selfie
29/12/2013 by Leave a Comment
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013 is “selfie”, and selfies are upon us in all their lip- and cleavage glory. But the idea is more than a hundred years old. The Oxford Dictionaries’ definition of a selfie is “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam […]
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